The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 43

‘Great heavens!’ she cried, ‘my deliverance approaches!

Who acts: Great heavens, my · What happens: cry, approach · To what, where: deliverance approaches

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Great heavens, my), 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	_	3 heavens	punct
2	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 heavens	amod
3	heavens	heaven	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cried	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 heavens	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 heavens	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cried	nsubj
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 approaches	nmod:poss
11	deliverance	deliverance	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 approaches	compound
12	approaches	approach	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cried	obj
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Great heavens	my deliverance approaches					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent approach=Topic
2	approach		my						nom approach «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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