The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 70

‘Oh, wind!’ at last he gasped out, ‘if you hurry me along like this you will kill me.

Who acts: wind, you · What happens: gasp out, hurry, kill · To what, where: 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 (wind, you), 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	_	4 wind	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 wind	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gasped	nsubj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 wind	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 wind	punct
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 last	case
8	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wind	nmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gasped	nsubj
10	gasped	gasp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 gasped	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 kill	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 kill	punct
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 hurry	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 hurry	nsubj
16	hurry	hurry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 kill	advcl
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 hurry	obj
18	along	along	ADV	_	16 hurry	advmod
19	like	like	ADP	_	20 this	case
20	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 hurry	obl
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 kill	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 kill	aux
23	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 gasped	conj
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 kill	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 gasped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	gasp out	past	wind at last			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hurry a condition, not said to happen	present	you	me	like this; along property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Agent
3	kill	future	you	me		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme

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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