The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 120

Then the King could restrain himself no longer, but sprang to her side and cried, ‘You can be no one but my dear wife!’

Who acts: King, You · What happens: restrain, spring, cry, be · To what, where: King, side

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, You), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 restrain	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 restrain	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 restrain	aux
5	restrain	restrain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 restrain	obj
7	no	no	ADV	_	8 longer	advmod
8	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 restrain	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sprang	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 sprang	cc
11	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 restrain	parataxis
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 side	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 side	nmod:poss
14	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sprang	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 cried	cc
16	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sprang	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 one	punct
18	‘	‘	ADP	_	23 one	case
19	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 one	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 one	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 one	cop
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 one	det
23	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cried	obl
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 wife	cc
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 wife	nmod:poss
26	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 wife	amod
27	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 one	conj
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 restrain	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 restrain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	restrain	could	the King	King		then	long property	vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer himself=Eventuality
2	spring	past			roe's side			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to side=Destination
3	cry speech: express	past						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	can	You				‘ no one but my dear wife	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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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