The Aesop for Children, The Frogs and the Ox, sentence 7

"Oh, _much_ bigger!" they cried.

Who acts: bigger · What happens: cry

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Frogs and the Ox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bigger), 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	_	7 bigger	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	7 bigger	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
5	much	much	ADV	_	7 bigger	advmod
6	_	_	PUNCT	_	7 bigger	punct
7	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 cried	nsubj
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 bigger	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 bigger	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 cried	nsubj
11	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	bigger						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: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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