The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 89

Get me money!’ he cried to the dog, and hey, presto! he was off and back again, holding a great purse full of money in his mouth.

Who acts: you, soldier · What happens: get, cry off, hold · To what, where: money, me, dog, great purse, mouth

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, soldier), 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	Get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Get	obj
3	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Get	obj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Get	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Get	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cried	nsubj
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Get	parataxis
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 dog	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dog	det
10	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hey	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hey	cc
13	hey	hey	INTJ	_	7 cried	discourse
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 presto	punct
15	presto	presto	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hey	vocative
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 hey	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 off	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 off	cop
19	off	off	ADP	_	7 cried	compound:prt
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 again	cc
21	back	back	ADV	_	22 again	advmod
22	again	again	ADV	_	19 off	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 holding	punct
24	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 cried	advcl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 purse	det
26	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 purse	amod
27	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 holding	obj
28	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 purse	amod
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 money	case
30	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 full	obl
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 mouth	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 mouth	nmod:poss
33	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 holding	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Get	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	get	imperative	you not said here	money	me		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary money=Theme
2	cry off speech: express	past	soldier		the dog		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to dog=Recipient
3	hold	gerund	soldier not said here	a great purse		soldier's mouth	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent purse=Theme in mouth=Location

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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