The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 78
A sergeant-major cried for mercy, saying he had nine wounds, and was a brave fellow, and did not deserve this disgrace.
Who acts: major cried mercy, blower · What happens: cry, say, have, be, not deserve · To what, where: nine wounds, brave fellow, disgrace · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (major cried mercy, blower), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 mercy | det |
| 2 | sergeant | sergeant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 major | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 sergeant | punct |
| 4 | major | major | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mercy | amod |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 mercy | amod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 mercy | case |
| 7 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 saying | punct |
| 9 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 mercy | acl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 saying | ccomp |
| 12 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 wounds | nummod |
| 13 | wounds | wound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 had | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fellow | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 fellow | cc |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 fellow | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 fellow | det |
| 18 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 fellow | amod |
| 19 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 deserve | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 deserve | cc |
| 22 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 deserve | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 deserve | advmod |
| 24 | deserve | deserve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 had | conj |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 disgrace | det |
| 26 | disgrace | disgrace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 deserve | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 mercy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | participle | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | a major cried mercy not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have | past | blower | nine wounds | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wound=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | a brave fellow | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | not deserve | past · do-support | blower not said here | this disgrace | 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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