The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 7

“G-g-gone?” cried the herdsman.

Who acts: herdsman · What happens: go, cry · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (herdsman), 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	_	9 cried	punct
2	G	G	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 g	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 G	punct
4	g	G	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gone	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 g	punct
6	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 cried	advcl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 gone	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 gone	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 herdsman	det
11	herdsman	herdsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cried	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	participle	the herdsman not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past	the herdsman						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 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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