The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 52

'Oh, thank you, thank you!' cried the parents, clasping his great hands to their breasts. '

What happens: thank, cry, clasp · To what, where: you, parents, great hands

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 thank	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 thank	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 thank	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thank	punct
7	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 thank	parataxis
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 thank	obj
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 thank	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct
11	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thank	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 parents	det
13	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 cried	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 clasping	punct
15	clasping	clasp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 cried	advcl
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 hands	nmod:poss
17	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hands	amod
18	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 clasping	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 breasts	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 breasts	nmod:poss
21	breasts	breast	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 clasping	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thank	punct
23	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 thank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	present		you		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	thank speech: thank	present		you		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
3	cry speech: express	past	the parents			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parent=Topic
4	clasp	gerund	way's great hands		to hands's breasts	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient to breast=Co-Patient

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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