The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 58
But at this answer the magpie screeched loudly, and exclaimed: “Oh, not this tree, dear brother, I implore you!
Who acts: magpie · What happens: screech, exclaim, implore · To what, where: tree, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magpie), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 screeched | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 answer | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 answer | det |
| 4 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 screeched | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 magpie | det |
| 6 | magpie | magpie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 screeched | nsubj |
| 7 | screeched | screech | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 7 screeched | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 exclaimed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 exclaimed | cc |
| 11 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 screeched | conj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 tree | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 tree | punct |
| 14 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 18 tree | discourse |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Oh | punct |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 tree | advmod |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 tree | det |
| 18 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 exclaimed | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 brother | punct |
| 20 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 brother | amod |
| 21 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tree | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 implore | punct |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 implore | nsubj |
| 24 | implore | implore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 screeched | conj |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 implore | obj |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 screeched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | screech | past | the magpie | at this answer; loudly property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at answer=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | the magpie not said here | this tree and dear brother | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent tree=Topic | ||||
| 3 | implore in a quote | present | the magpie = magpie | you | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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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