The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 69
‘Oh, have pity, have pity!’ cried the heron.
What happens: have, cry · To what, where: pity, heron
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34. 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 | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 have | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 cried | parataxis |
| 5 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | conj |
| 8 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | obj |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 heron | det |
| 13 | heron | heron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | pity | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient | |||||
| 2 | have | present | pity | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | the heron | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heron=Topic |
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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