The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 113

‘Save me from the sun,’ replied the bird, ‘and I will save you from rain.’

Who acts: you, I · What happens: save, reply · To what, where: me, sun, bird, you, rain

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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	_	2 Save	punct
2	Save	save	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Save	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 sun	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sun	det
6	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Save	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 replied	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 replied	punct
9	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Save	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bird	det
11	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 replied	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ‘	punct
13	‘	‘	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bird	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 save	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 save	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 save	aux
17	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Save	conj
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 save	obj
19	from	from	ADP	_	20 rain	case
20	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 save	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Save	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Save	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	save	imperative	you not said here	me	the sun	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent i=Theme from sun=Source
2	reply speech: assert	past	you not said here	the bird and ‘		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bird=Topic
3	save	future	I	you	rain	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent you=Theme from rain=Source

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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