Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 27

“Ah!” cried Fionn in a terrible voice.

Who acts: Fionn · What happens: cry · To what, where: terrible voice

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fionn), 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	_	5 cried	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	5 cried	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 voice	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 voice	det
9	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 voice	amod
10	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Fionn			a terrible voice			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in voice=Location

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: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (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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