The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 88
‘Rope, O rope!’ cried the voice again, ‘twine yourself round his neck and strangle him.’
Who acts: Rope · What happens: cry, twine, strangle · To what, where: voice, yourself, neck, Désiré
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 (Rope), 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 Rope | punct |
| 2 | Rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 rope | punct |
| 4 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 5 rope | discourse |
| 5 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Rope | conj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Rope | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Rope | punct |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 voice | det |
| 10 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | obj |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 cried | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 twine | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 twine | punct |
| 14 | twine | twine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 cried | parataxis |
| 15 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 twine | obj |
| 16 | round | round | ADP | _ | 18 neck | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 neck | nmod:poss |
| 18 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 twine | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 strangle | cc |
| 20 | strangle | strangle | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 twine | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 strangle | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Rope and rope | the voice | again | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Topic | |||
| 2 | twine | infinitive | yourself | Désiré's neck | vn coil-9.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme round neck=Destination | ||||
| 3 | strangle | infinitive | Désiré | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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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