The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 119

‘Let me go! let me go!’ shrieked he.

Who acts: me · What happens: let, go, shriek · To what, where: me, Petru

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (me), 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 Let	punct
2	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 shrieked	ccomp
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
6	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 let	obj
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
11	shrieked	shriek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 shrieked	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 shrieked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	let	infinitive		me	tree rules
2	go	infinitive	me not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	let	infinitive	me not said here	me	tree rules
4	go	infinitive	me not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	shriek	past		Petru	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 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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