Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 99

"O my Pic-cio-la!" he cried.

Who acts: Pic cio · What happens: cry

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 (Pic cio), 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	_	12 cried	punct
2	O	o	INTJ	_	12 cried	discourse
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 cio	nmod:poss
4	Pic	pic	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cio	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Pic	punct
6	cio	cio	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cried	nsubj
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 la	punct
8	la	la	X	Foreign=Yes	6 cio	appos
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 la	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 cio	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 cried	nsubj
12	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	my Pic cio						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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