The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 67

‘Aite,’ he cried to his wife, ‘go quickly to the chest upstairs, and bring down the money for these gentlemen.’

Who acts: Aite · What happens: cry, go, bring down · To what, where: wife, chest, money

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Aite), 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 Aite	punct
2	Aite	Aite	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 cried	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Aite	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Aite	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cried	nsubj
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 wife	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 wife	nmod:poss
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 go	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 go	punct
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 cried	conj
13	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	12 go	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 chest	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 chest	det
16	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 go	obl
17	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	_	12 go	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 bring	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 bring	cc
20	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 go	conj
21	down	down	ADP	_	20 bring	compound:prt
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 money	det
23	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bring	obj
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 gentlemen	case
25	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	26 gentlemen	det
26	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 bring	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Aite		Aite's wife			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient
2	go	infinitive	Aite not said here			the chest	quickly, upstairs property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to chest=Initial_Location
3	bring down	infinitive	Aite not said here	the money			for this gentlemen	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent money=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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