The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 10

'Oh! do tell us! do tell us!' cried they all.

Who acts: sons · What happens: tell, cry · To what, where: us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sons), 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	_	5 tell	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 tell	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 cried	ccomp
6	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 tell	aux
9	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	conj
10	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 tell	iobj
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
13	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 cried	nsubj
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 they	det
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · do-support		us	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient
2	tell speech: assert	present · do-support		us	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient
3	cry speech: express	past	sons = son		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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