The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 44
Quick, quick, help me out of my prison; only push back the bolt of this coffin and I am free.’
Who acts: Quick, I, coffin · What happens: help, push back, be, bolt · To what, where: me, prison, bolt
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 (Quick, I, coffin), 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 | Quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 help | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 quick | punct |
| 3 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Quick | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 help | punct |
| 5 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 help | obj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 prison | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 prison | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 prison | nmod:poss |
| 10 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 help | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 push | punct |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 push | advmod |
| 13 | push | push | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 help | parataxis |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 push | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bolt | det |
| 16 | bolt | bolt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 push | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 coffin | case |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 coffin | det |
| 19 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bolt | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 free | cc |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 free | nsubj |
| 22 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 free | cop |
| 23 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 push | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 help | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | infinitive | Quick | me | my prison | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | push back | infinitive | the bolt of this coffin | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bolt=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | present | I | free property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | bolt | this coffin | nom bolt «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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