--- title: “Iron-strong, World’s-weight, Quick-ear, fly to my help!” cried Pete… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “Iron-strong, World’s-weight, Quick-ear, fly to my help!” cried Peter; and Quick-ear heard, and said to his brothers: “Listen, our master is calling us.” Who acts: master, my. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, my), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2435:28:29 # text = “Iron-strong, World’s-weight, Quick-ear, fly to my help!” cried Peter; and Quick-ear heard, and said to his brothers: “Listen, our master is calling us.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 World’s World's PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 Quick quick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 20 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 21 Peter Peter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 Quick quick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 heard heard NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 parataxis _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 : : PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 35 “ " PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 Listen listen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 38 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 40 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 calling call VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 36 advcl _ _ 42 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ” " PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fly** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | to my help *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to help=Result | | 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | | ear heard | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | Eisenkopf's brothers | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to brother=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **listen** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **call** *in a quote* | present · progressive | our master | | us | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient | | 6 | **help** *in a quote* | | my | | | | | | nom help «act transitive»: 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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/28/28/) - next →: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/28/30/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/28/)