The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 127

‘Push on, good horse, for we have no time to lose!’ cried Petru; then he shut up the box, and put it in his pocket.

Who acts: we, man · What happens: push on, have, lose, cry, shut up, put · To what, where: good horse, box, horse, pocket · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (we, man), 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	_	2 Push	punct
2	Push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 cried	ccomp
3	on	on	ADP	_	2 Push	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 horse	punct
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 horse	amod
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Push	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 have	mark
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 have	nsubj
10	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Push	parataxis
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 time	det
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 have	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 lose	mark
14	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 time	acl
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Push	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Push	punct
17	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	Petru	Petru	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 cried	flat
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 shut	punct
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 shut	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 shut	nsubj
22	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 cried	conj
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 shut	compound:prt
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 box	det
25	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 shut	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 put	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 put	cc
28	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 cried	conj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 put	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 pocket	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 pocket	nmod:poss
32	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 put	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	push on	infinitive		good horse			vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	have	present	we			time	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	lose	to-infinitive	we not said here				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	cry speech: express	past					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	shut up	past	man	the box		then	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Patient
6	put	infinitive		horse	man's pocket		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in pocket=Destination

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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