The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 6

He caught a crane, and the crane said, ‘Let me go free, and I’ll show myself grateful.’

Who acts: man, crane, me, I · What happens: catch, say, let, go, show · To what, where: crane, me, myself · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Two in a Sack. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, crane, me, I), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 caught	nsubj
2	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 crane	det
4	crane	crane	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 caught	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 crane	det
8	crane	crane	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 caught	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Let	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 Let	punct
12	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 Let	obj
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 Let	xcomp
15	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 go	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 show	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 show	cc
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 show	nsubj
19	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 show	aux
20	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 Let	conj
21	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 show	iobj
22	grateful	grateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 show	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 caught	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	catch	past	man	a crane			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crane=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the crane				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	let	infinitive		me			tree rules
4	go	infinitive	me not said here			free property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	show	future	I		myself	grateful property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent myself=Recipient

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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