The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 40

But again he freed himself, though not so easily as the first time, and he said to his sister:

Who acts: back · What happens: free, say · To what, where: back, sister · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (back), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 freed	cc
2	again	again	ADV	_	4 freed	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 freed	nsubj
4	freed	free	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 freed	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 easily	punct
7	though	though	SCONJ	_	10 easily	mark
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 easily	advmod
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 easily	advmod
10	easily	easily	ADV	_	4 freed	advmod
11	as	as	ADP	_	14 time	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 time	det
13	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 time	amod
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 easily	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 freed	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 sister	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 sister	nmod:poss
21	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	obl
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 freed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	free	past	back	back			again	easily property	vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer himself=Source
2	say speech: assert	past	back		back's sister				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to sister=Recipient

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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