More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 118
"Oh, shall I be among the stars in the sky then?" cried the lassie.
Who acts: stars · What happens: be, cry · To what, where: sky, lassie · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stars), 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 | _ | 16 cried | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 9 stars | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 stars | aux |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 stars | nsubj |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 stars | cop |
| 7 | among | among | ADP | _ | 9 stars | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stars | det |
| 9 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 cried | nsubj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 sky | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sky | det |
| 12 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stars | nmod |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 stars | advmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 stars | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 stars | punct |
| 16 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 lassie | det |
| 18 | lassie | lassie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cried | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | shall | the stars = star | the sky | then | among the stars | tree rules | ||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the stars | the lassie | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lassie=Topic |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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