The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 71

‘Here,’ he cried, ‘is the boy who released me from my prison.

Who acts: song, ‘, boy · What happens: cry, be, release · To what, where: boy, me, prison

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lute Player. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (song, ‘, boy), 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 Here	punct
2	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cried	nsubj
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Here	parataxis
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 boy	punct
8	‘	‘	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 boy	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 boy	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boy	det
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	obl
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 released	nsubj
13	released	release	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 boy	acl:relcl
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 released	obj
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 prison	case
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 prison	nmod:poss
17	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 released	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	song			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	‘	the boy		tree rules
3	release	past	the boy	me	my prison	vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer i=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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