The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 43

He was turning away, when a voice cried the second time, ‘Brother, for pity’s sake fetch me some water; I’m dying of thirst!’

Who acts: prince, voice, sake, I · What happens: turn away, cry, fetch, be, die · To what, where: Brother, water, me

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 (prince, voice, sake, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turning	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turning	aux
3	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 turning	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 cried	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 voice	det
8	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cried	nsubj
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turning	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 time	det
11	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 time	amod
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cried	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Brother	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 Brother	punct
15	Brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cried	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 fetch	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 fetch	mark
18	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sake	nmod:poss
19	’s	's	PART	_	18 pity	case
20	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fetch	nsubj
21	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 cried	advcl
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 fetch	obj
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 water	det
24	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fetch	obj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 ’m	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 ’m	nsubj
27	’m	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 turning	conj
28	dying	die	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 ’m	xcomp
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 thirst	case
30	thirst	thirst	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 dying	obl
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 turning	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 turning	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	turn away	past · progressive	prince				away property	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	cry speech: express	past	a voice	Brother		time		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fetch	infinitive	pity's sake	some water	me			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary water=Theme
4	be	present	I					tree rules
5	die	gerund	I not said here				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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