The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 61

As soon as the duck perceived him, it cried in a human voice, ‘Oh, dear Prince Milan, for the love of Heaven give me back my garment, and I will be so grateful to you.’

Who acts: duck, help, dear Prince Milan, I · What happens: perceive, cry, give back, be, love · To what, where: heart, human voice, garment, me, you, Heaven

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (duck, help, dear Prince Milan, 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 cried	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 perceived	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 duck	det
5	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 perceived	nsubj
6	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cried	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 perceived	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 perceived	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cried	nsubj
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 voice	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 voice	det
13	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 voice	amod
14	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cried	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 give	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	28 give	punct
17	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	21 Milan	discourse
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Oh	punct
19	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Milan	amod
20	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Milan	compound
21	Milan	Milan	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 give	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 love	punct
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 love	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 love	det
25	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Milan	appos
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 Heaven	case
27	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 love	nmod
28	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 cried	conj
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 give	iobj
30	back	back	ADP	_	28 give	compound:prt
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 garment	nmod:poss
32	garment	garment	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 give	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 grateful	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 grateful	cc
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 grateful	nsubj
36	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 grateful	aux
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 grateful	cop
38	so	so	ADV	_	39 grateful	advmod
39	grateful	grateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cried	parataxis
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 you	case
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 grateful	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	39 grateful	punct
43	’	'	PUNCT	_	39 grateful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	perceive	past	the duck	heart				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	cry speech: express	past	help			a human voice	soon property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in voice=Location
3	give back	infinitive	dear Prince Milan	my garment	me			vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient garment=Theme
4	is	future	I		you		grateful property	tree rules
5	love			Heaven				nom love «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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