The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 63

‘Come to me, then; come to me!’ said Cinderlad, as he passed by jumping and running, and keeping tight hold of one of the foals’ tails.

Who acts: Cinderlad · What happens: come, say, pass, jump, run, keep · To what, where: me, tight hold · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Seven Foals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cinderlad), 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 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 me	case
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Come	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 then	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Come	advmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 come	punct
8	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Come	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 me	case
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 come	obl
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	Cinderlad	Cinderlad	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 passed	punct
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 passed	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 passed	nsubj
18	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	parataxis
19	by	by	SCONJ	_	20 jumping	mark
20	jumping	jump	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 passed	advcl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 running	cc
22	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 jumping	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 keeping	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 keeping	cc
25	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 passed	advcl
26	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 hold	amod
27	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 keeping	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 one	case
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 hold	nmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	34 tails	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 foals	det
32	foals	foal	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 tails	nmod:poss
33	’	's	PART	_	32 foals	case
34	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 one	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	come	infinitive			me	then	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location
2	come	infinitive			me		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location
3	say speech: assert	past	Cinderlad				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	pass	past	Cinderlad				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	jump	gerund	Cinderlad not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	run	gerund	Cinderlad not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	keep	gerund	Cinderlad not said here	tight hold of one of the foals's tails			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme

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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