The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 71
Then Hassebu cried, ‘Loose me, that I may take you.’
Who acts: Hassebu, I · What happens: cry, lose, take · To what, where: me, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hassebu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hassebu, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 cried | advmod |
| 2 | Hassebu | Hassebu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Loose | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Loose | punct |
| 6 | Loose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 cried | ccomp |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 Loose | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 take | punct |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 take | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 take | nsubj |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 take | aux |
| 12 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 Loose | conj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 take | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cried | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Hassebu | then | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | lose | infinitive | me | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | take | may | I | you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=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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