The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"], sentence 4

Madam," cried the clerk of the kitchen.

Who acts: Madam · What happens: cry · To what, where: clerk

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Her With a Sauce Robert'"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Madam), 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	Madam	madam	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cried	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Madam	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Madam	punct
4	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 clerk	det
6	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cried	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 kitchen	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 kitchen	det
9	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 clerk	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express in a quote	past	Madam	the clerk of the kitchen					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clerk=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: «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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