The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 41

It was empty, save for a large cask, bound with iron hoops, and out of the cask a voice was saying entreatingly, ‘For goodness’ sake, brother, fetch me some water; I am dying of thirst!’

Who acts: curiosity, voice, I · What happens: be, save, bind, say, fetch, die · To what, where: large cask, goodness sake, cask, water, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (curiosity, voice, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 empty	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 empty	cop
3	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 save	punct
5	save	save	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 empty	parataxis
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 cask	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cask	det
8	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cask	amod
9	cask	cask	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 save	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bound	punct
11	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 cask	acl
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 hoops	case
13	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hoops	compound
14	hoops	hoop	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 bound	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 saying	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 saying	cc
17	out	out	ADP	_	20 cask	case
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 cask	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 cask	det
20	cask	cask	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 saying	obl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 voice	det
22	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 saying	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 saying	aux
24	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 save	advcl
25	entreatingly	entreatingly	ADV	_	24 saying	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sake	punct
27	‘	'	PUNCT	_	29 goodness	punct
28	For	for	ADP	_	29 goodness	case
29	goodness	goodness	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sake	compound
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	29 goodness	punct
31	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 saying	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 brother	punct
33	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sake	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 fetch	punct
35	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 save	conj
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 fetch	obj
37	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	38 water	det
38	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 fetch	obj
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 dying	punct
40	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 dying	nsubj
41	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 dying	aux
42	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 empty	parataxis
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 thirst	case
44	thirst	thirst	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 dying	obl
45	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 empty	punct
46	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 empty	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	curiosity				empty property	tree rules
2	save	infinitive					for a large cask	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent for cask=Source
3	bind	participle		a large cask not said here			with iron hoops	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with hoop=Co-Patient
4	say speech: assert	past · progressive	a voice	goodness sake and brother		the cask	entreatingly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	fetch	infinitive		some water	me			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary water=Theme
6	die	present · progressive	I				of thirst	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of thirst=Causer

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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