The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 75
‘Ah! stay, dear love, stay,’ she cried.
Who acts: you, lady · What happens: stay, cry
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, lady), 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 | _ | 4 stay | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 4 stay | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 love | punct |
| 6 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 love | amod |
| 7 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stay | vocative |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stay | punct |
| 9 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 stay | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cried | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | CCONJ | _ | 13 cried | cc |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 cried | nsubj |
| 13 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stay | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | imperative | you not said here | dear love vocative | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stay | infinitive | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | lady | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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