Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 18

“But, but--” cried Art in astonishment.

Who acts: Art · What happens: cry · To what, where: astonishment

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Art), 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	_	7 cried	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 but	cc
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 but	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 cried	cc
5	--	--	PUNCT	_	4 but	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 but	punct
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Art	Art	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 astonishment	case
10	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct

Pragmatics

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