More English Fairy Tales, LXIX. the Hobyahs, sentence 6
Mr. Proudfit remarks that the cry "Look me" was very impressive.
Who acts: Proudfit, cry · What happens: remark, look, be · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXIX. the Hobyahs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Proudfit, cry), 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 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Proudfit | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Proudfit | Proudfit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 remarks | nsubj |
| 3 | remarks | remark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 impressive | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cry | det |
| 6 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 impressive | nsubj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Look | punct |
| 8 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 cry | parataxis |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 Look | obj |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Look | punct |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 impressive | cop |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 impressive | advmod |
| 13 | impressive | impressive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 remarks | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remarks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remark speech: assert | present | Proudfit Mr. | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | look in a quote | infinitive | me | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the cry | impressive property | tree rules |
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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