The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 287

And he took her in his arms, crying: ‘My darling Zizi, how happy I am to see you once more!’

Who acts: father, I · What happens: take, cry, see · To what, where: Zizi, arms, you

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, I), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 took	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 arms	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 arms	nmod:poss
7	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 took	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 crying	punct
9	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 took	conj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 Zizi	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 Zizi	punct
12	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 Zizi	nmod:poss
13	darling	darling	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Zizi	amod
14	Zizi	Zizi	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 took	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 happy	punct
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 happy	advmod
17	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Zizi	parataxis
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 see	nsubj
19	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 see	aux
20	to	to	PART	_	21 see	mark
21	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 happy	parataxis
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 see	obj
23	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	24 more	advmod
24	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 see	advmod
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 Zizi	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	take	past	father	Zizi	father's arms	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Value in arm=Location
2	cry speech: express	gerund	father not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	see	present	I	you		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=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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