The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 82

‘Take care, he is here, he has bitten me to death,’ groaned Walter.

Who acts: echo · What happens: take, be, bite, groan · To what, where: care, me, Walter

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (echo), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
2	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 groaned	ccomp
3	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Take	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 here	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 here	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 here	cop
7	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Take	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bitten	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 bitten	nsubj
10	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 bitten	aux
11	bitten	bite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 Take	advcl
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 bitten	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 death	case
14	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bitten	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
17	groaned	groan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	Walter	Walter	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 groaned	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 groaned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	infinitive		care		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
2	is	present	echo		here property	tree rules
3	bite	present · perfect	echo	me	to death result	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent i=Patient to death=Result
4	groan	past		Walter		tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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