English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 72

And she saw him, and cried to him: “Waken, waken, and speak to me!”

Who acts: daughter · What happens: see, cry, waken, speak · To what, where: catch, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Nix Nought Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter), 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	_	3 saw	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 cried	cc
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cried	obl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 Waken	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 Waken	punct
12	Waken	waken	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 cried	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 waken	punct
14	waken	waken	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 Waken	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 speak	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 speak	cc
17	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	parataxis
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 me	case
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 speak	obl
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 speak	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 speak	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	see	past	daughter	catch		tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	daughter not said here		catch	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
3	waken in a quote	infinitive	daughter not said here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	waken in a quote	infinitive	daughter not said here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	speak speech: other in a quote	infinitive			daughter	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to i=Co-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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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