The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 64

‘Ah, if you only would!’ cried the Princess, and at the same moment she heard a crick-cracking in all her bones.

Who acts: Princess · What happens: cry, hear · To what, where: Princess, crick cracking, bones

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess), 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	_	10 cried	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	10 cried	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 would	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 would	nsubj
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 would	advmod
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 cried	parataxis
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 would	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 would	punct
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Princess	det
12	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 cried	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 heard	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 heard	cc
15	at	at	ADP	_	18 moment	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 moment	det
17	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 moment	amod
18	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 heard	obl
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 heard	nsubj
20	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cried	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 cracking	det
22	crick	crick	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cracking	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 crick	punct
24	cracking	cracking	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 heard	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 bones	case
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 bones	det:predet
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 bones	nmod:poss
28	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 heard	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past		the Princess					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Topic
2	hear	past	Princess	a crick cracking		Princess's bones	moment		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cracking=Stimulus

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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