The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 138
“Oh, what lovely creatures! how I wish they were mine!” he exclaimed.
Who acts: lovely creatures, creatures, king · What happens: wish, be, exclaim · To what, where: king · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lovely creatures, creatures, king), 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 what | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 what | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 5 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 creatures | amod |
| 6 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 wish | nsubj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 creatures | punct |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 wish | advmod |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 wish | nsubj |
| 10 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | acl:relcl |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 mine | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 mine | cop |
| 13 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wish | ccomp |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 wish | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 what | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 17 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish in a quote | present | lovely creatures | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | creatures = creature | king | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | exclaim speech: express | past | king | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: 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 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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