Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 52

"What a beautiful work of art!" they cried. "

Who acts: beautiful work, art · What happens: cry, work

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Antonio Canova.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful work, art), 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	_	11 cried	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 cried	obj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 work	det
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 work	amod
5	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cried	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 art	case
7	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 work	nmod
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 work	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 work	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 cried	nsubj
11	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	a beautiful work of art						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
2	work in a quote		art						nom work «act intransitive»: of=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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