Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 254

"Grave, grave!" cried the crows.

Who acts: Grave · What happens: cry · To what, where: crows

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grave), 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	_	2 Grave	punct
2	Grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 grave	punct
4	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Grave	conj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Grave	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Grave	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 crows	det
9	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	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	Grave and grave	the crows					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crow=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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