The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 138

'How shocking!' exclaimed the city swallow.

What happens: exclaim · To what, where: city swallow

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. 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	_	3 shocking	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 shocking	advmod
3	shocking	shocking	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 shocking	punct
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 shocking	punct
6	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shocking	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 swallow	det
8	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 swallow	compound
9	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 exclaimed	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shocking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exclaim speech: express	past		the city swallow					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent swallow=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 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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