The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 23
“Oh, Abu Nowas, you impudent dog!” exclaimed the Sultan, bursting into a laugh, in which the Sultana joined.
Who acts: you, Abu Nowas, Sultana · What happens: dog, exclaim, burst, join · To what, where: Sultan, laugh · 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 (you, Abu Nowas, Sultana), 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 | _ | 12 exclaimed | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 Nowas | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | Abu | Abu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Nowas | compound |
| 5 | Nowas | Nowas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dog | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 dog | nsubj |
| 8 | impudent | impudent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 dog | amod |
| 9 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Nowas | appos |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 Nowas | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Nowas | punct |
| 12 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Sultan | det |
| 14 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 exclaimed | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bursting | punct |
| 16 | bursting | burst | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 exclaimed | advcl |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 laugh | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 laugh | det |
| 19 | laugh | laugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bursting | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 joined | punct |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 joined | obl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Sultana | det |
| 24 | Sultana | Sultana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 joined | nsubj |
| 25 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 exclaimed | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dog in a quote | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | Abu Nowas | the Sultan | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sultan=Topic | ||||
| 3 | burst | gerund | Abu Nowas not said here | a laugh | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | join | past | the Sultana | vn cooperate-73.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in which=Theme |
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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