The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 17

‘Give me that fan at once!’ cried Grimace.

What happens: give, cry · To what, where: fan, me

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 Give	punct
2	Give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 cried	parataxis
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Give	iobj
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 fan	det
5	fan	fan	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Give	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 Give	obl
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Grimace	Grimace	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 cried	flat
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	infinitive		that fan	me				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Recipient fan=Theme at once=Asset
2	cry speech: express	past							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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