Fifty Famous Stories Retold, George Washington and His Hatchet., sentence 11

"Father!" cried little George. "

Who acts: Father · What happens: cry · To what, where: little George

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, George Washington and His Hatchet.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Father), 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	_	2 Father	punct
2	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 cried	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Father	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Father	punct
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 George	amod
7	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 George	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 George	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Father	little George					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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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