The Green Fairy Book, The Three Snake-leaves, sentence 6

And when their leader fell too the rest wished to take to flight; but the youth stepped forward and encouraged them and called out, ‘We must not let our country be ruined!’

Who acts: leader, youth, We, country · What happens: fall, wish, take, step forward, encourage, call out · To what, where: rest, flight, sides, country

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Snake-leaves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leader, youth, We, country), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 fell	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 fell	advmod
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 leader	nmod:poss
4	leader	leader	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fell	nsubj
5	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	too	too	ADV	_	5 fell	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rest	det
8	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fell	obj
9	wished	wish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 rest	acl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 take	mark
11	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 wished	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 flight	mark
13	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 take	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 stepped	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 stepped	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 youth	det
17	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stepped	nsubj
18	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fell	conj
19	forward	forward	ADV	_	18 stepped	advmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 encouraged	cc
21	encouraged	encourage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 stepped	conj
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 encouraged	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 called	cc
24	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 encouraged	conj
25	out	out	ADP	_	24 called	compound:prt
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 let	punct
27	‘	'	PUNCT	_	31 let	punct
28	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 let	nsubj
29	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 let	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 let	advmod
31	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 encouraged	parataxis
32	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 country	nmod:poss
33	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 let	obj
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 ruined	aux:pass
35	ruined	ruin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 let	xcomp
36	!	!	PUNCT	_	31 let	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	31 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fall	past	sides's leader	the rest		vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient rest=Result
2	wish	participle		the rest not said here		vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	take	to-infinitive		flight		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flight=Theme
4	step forward	past	the youth		forward property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	encourage	past	the youth not said here	sides = side		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
6	call out speech: assert	participle	the youth not said here			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	not let	must	We	our country		tree rules
8	ruin	infinitive · passive	our country not said here			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»

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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