The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 102

‘Well, forward!’ cried Petru lightly, ‘and if I have to bear cold, I must bear it!’

Who acts: I · What happens: cry, have, bear · To what, where: Petru, horse

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	7 cried	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	forward	forward	ADV	_	2 Well	advmod
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Petru	Petru	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obj
9	lightly	lightly	ADV	_	7 cried	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 bear	cc
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 have	mark
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 have	nsubj
15	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 bear	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 bear	mark
17	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 have	xcomp
18	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 bear	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 bear	nsubj
21	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 bear	aux
22	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 cried	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 bear	obj
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	22 bear	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	22 bear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past		Petru	lightly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent petru=Topic
2	have a condition, not said to happen	present	I			tree rules
3	bear	to-infinitive	I not said here		cold property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	bear	must	I	horse		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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