The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 57

‘Water, water!’ he cried in his despair, ‘do have pity upon me and do not wet me like this.’

Who acts: Water, Medio · What happens: cry, have, not wet, despair · To what, where: despair, pity, me

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Half-chick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Water, Medio), 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	_	2 Water	punct
2	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cried	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 water	punct
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Water	conj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Water	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Water	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cried	nsubj
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 despair	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 despair	nmod:poss
11	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cried	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
14	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 have	aux
15	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 cried	conj
16	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 have	obj
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 me	case
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 have	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 wet	cc
20	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 wet	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 wet	advmod
22	wet	wet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 have	conj
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 wet	obj
24	like	like	ADP	_	25 this	case
25	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 wet	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Water and water		Medio's despair		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in despair=Location
2	have	present · do-support	Water and water not said here	pity		upon me	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient
3	not wet	infinitive · do-support	Water and water not said here	me		like this	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent i=Patient
4	despair		Medio				nom despair «state 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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