The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 97

'Oh! look at that lake!' she said, 'we shall never get across it.'

Who acts: wife, we · What happens: look, say, not get · To what, where: lake · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, we), 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	_	4 look	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 look	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 lake	case
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 lake	det
7	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 look	obl
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 look	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 look	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 get	punct
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 get	punct
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 get	nsubj
15	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 get	aux
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 get	advmod
17	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
18	across	across	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 get	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 get	punct
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 get	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	look	infinitive			at that lake	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at lake=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	wife			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not get	shall	we	lake		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme across it=Destination

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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