The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 16

The youth shrieked and cried, ‘Ah, good father, it is a fleet of ships, and they are chasing us, and in a few moments they will be upon us.’

Who acts: youth, sailors · What happens: shriek, cry, be, chase · To what, where: good father, fleet, us

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, sailors), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 youth	det
2	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shrieked	nsubj
3	shrieked	shriek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 cried	cc
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shrieked	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 father	punct
7	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 father	punct
8	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	11 father	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Ah	punct
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 father	amod
11	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fleet	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fleet	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 fleet	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 fleet	det
16	fleet	fleet	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 father	appos
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 ships	case
18	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 fleet	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 chasing	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 chasing	cc
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 chasing	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 chasing	aux
23	chasing	chase	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 cried	advcl
24	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 chasing	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 moments	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 moments	cc
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 moments	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 moments	det
29	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 moments	amod
30	moments	moment	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shrieked	obl
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 us	nsubj
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 us	aux
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 us	cop
34	upon	upon	ADP	_	35 us	case
35	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 moments	appos
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shrieked	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 shrieked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	shriek	past	the youth		moment		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past	the youth not said here	good father			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	youth	a fleet		of ships	tree rules
4	chase	present · progressive	sailors = sailor	us			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
5	is	future	sailors = sailor			upon us	tree rules

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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