The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 77

“Oh, look, sister!” cried the first to reach the window, “it is a horse that has knocked, and on its back there is bound a dead boy, the most beautiful boy in all the world!”

Who acts: window · What happens: look, cry, reach, be, knock, bind · To what, where: sister, window, horse, dead boy, back · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (window), 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	_	4 look	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 look	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 cried	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sister	punct
6	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 look	obl
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 look	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 look	punct
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 first	det
11	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 cried	xcomp
12	to	to	PART	_	13 reach	mark
13	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 first	acl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 window	det
15	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 reach	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 horse	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 horse	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 horse	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 horse	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 horse	det
21	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cried	obl
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 knocked	nsubj:pass
23	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 knocked	aux
24	knocked	knock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 horse	acl:relcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 bound	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 bound	cc
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 back	case
28	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 back	nmod:poss
29	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bound	obl
30	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	32 bound	expl
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 bound	aux:pass
32	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 cried	conj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 boy	det
34	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 boy	amod
35	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bound	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 boy	punct
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 boy	det
38	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	39 beautiful	advmod
39	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 boy	amod
40	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cried	parataxis
41	in	in	ADP	_	44 world	case
42	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	44 world	det:predet
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 world	det
44	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 boy	nmod
45	!	!	PUNCT	_	40 boy	punct
46	”	"	PUNCT	_	40 boy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look in a quote	infinitive		sister			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	cry speech: express	past				first property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	reach	to-infinitive		the window			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent window=Theme
4	is a in a quote	present	window	a horse			tree rules
5	knock in a quote	present · perfect · passive		a horse			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient
6	bind in a quote	present · passive		a dead boy	window's back; there		vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: boy=Patient

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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