Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand, sentence 43

"Ink-pitcher!" cried the pen.

Who acts: Ink pitcher · What happens: cry · To what, where: pen

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ink pitcher), 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 pitcher	punct
2	Ink	ink	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pitcher	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Ink	punct
4	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	nsubj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 pitcher	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 pitcher	punct
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pen	det
9	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Ink pitcher	the pen					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pen=Topic

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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