The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 2
“There is the Sultana’s chamberlain,” he exclaimed in a fright.
Who acts: chamberlain · What happens: be, exclaim · To what, where: chamberlain, fright · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chamberlain), 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 | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 chamberlain | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Sultana | det |
| 5 | Sultana | Sultana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 chamberlain | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 Sultana | case |
| 7 | chamberlain | chamberlain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 exclaimed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 chamberlain | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 chamberlain | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 11 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 fright | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 fright | det |
| 14 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 exclaimed | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the Sultana's chamberlain | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | chamberlain | a fright | 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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