The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 50
‘O Ciccu! stay with us,’ they cried.
Who acts: Ciccu, Peppe · What happens: stay, cry · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ciccu, Peppe), 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 | _ | 5 stay | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 3 Ciccu | discourse |
| 3 | Ciccu | Ciccu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 stay | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 Ciccu | punct |
| 5 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 cried | ccomp |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 us | case |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 stay | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 stay | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 stay | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 cried | nsubj |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | infinitive | Ciccu | with us | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with we=Location | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Peppe | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/37/50/