The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 73

'Why, it is a buffalo!' cried he; 'I never have beheld one in this country before!'

Who acts: amazement, buffalo, I · What happens: be, cry, not behold · To what, where: buffalo, one, country

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (amazement, buffalo, I), 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 Why	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 buffalo	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 buffalo	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 buffalo	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 buffalo	det
7	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cried	nsubj
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 buffalo	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 buffalo	punct
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cried	nsubj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 beheld	punct
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 beheld	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 beheld	nsubj
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 beheld	advmod
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 beheld	aux
17	beheld	behold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 cried	conj
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 beheld	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 country	case
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 country	det
21	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 beheld	obl
22	before	before	ADV	_	17 beheld	advmod
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct
24	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	amazement	a buffalo			tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	a buffalo				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not behold	present · perfect	I	one	this country	before property	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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