The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 27

When the huntsmen seized the maiden, she awoke and was frightened, and cried out to them, ‘I am a poor child, forsaken by father and mother; take pity on me, and let me go with you.’

Who acts: huntsmen, sun, I, me · What happens: seize, awake, frighten, cry out, be, forsake · To what, where: maiden, huntsmen, poor child, pity, me

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (huntsmen, sun, I, me), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 seized	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 huntsmen	det
3	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 seized	nsubj
4	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 awoke	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 maiden	det
6	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 seized	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 seized	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 awoke	nsubj
9	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 frightened	cc
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 frightened	aux:pass
12	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 awoke	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cried	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 cried	cc
15	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 awoke	conj
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 cried	compound:prt
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 cried	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 child	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	25 child	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 child	nsubj
22	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 child	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 child	det
24	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 child	amod
25	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cried	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 forsaken	punct
27	forsaken	forsake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 child	acl
28	by	by	ADP	_	29 father	case
29	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 forsaken	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 mother	cc
31	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 father	conj
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 take	punct
33	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 awoke	parataxis
34	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 take	obj
35	on	on	ADP	_	36 me	case
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 take	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 let	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 let	cc
39	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	33 take	conj
40	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 let	obj
41	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 let	xcomp
42	with	with	ADP	_	43 you	case
43	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 go	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 take	punct
45	’	'	PUNCT	_	33 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	seize	past	the huntsmen	the maiden			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Theme
2	awake	past	sun				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	frighten	past · passive	sun not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
4	cry out speech: express	past	sun not said here		huntsmen = huntsman		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient
5	is a	present	I	a poor child			tree rules
6	forsake	participle		a poor child not said here		by father and mother	tree rules
7	take	infinitive		pity		on me	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pity=Theme on i=Destination
8	let	infinitive		me			tree rules
9	go	infinitive	me not said here			with you	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with you=Beneficiary

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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