English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 73

But he would not waken, and soon she cried:

Who acts: catch, daughter · What happens: not waken, cry

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 (catch, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 waken	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 waken	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 waken	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 waken	advmod
5	waken	waken	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cried	cc
8	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 cried	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cried	nsubj
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 waken	advcl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 waken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not waken	would	catch						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	cry speech: express	past	daughter					soon property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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