The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 15

“Who is that?” he cried, standing upright instantly; but only an echo answered him.

Who acts: manner, echo · What happens: be, cry, stand, answer · To what, where: that, manner · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (manner, echo), 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	_	8 cried	punct
2	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 that	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 that	cop
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 cried	obl
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 that	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 that	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cried	nsubj
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 standing	punct
10	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 cried	advcl
11	upright	upright	ADV	_	12 instantly	advmod
12	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	10 standing	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 answered	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 answered	cc
15	only	only	ADV	_	17 echo	advmod
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 echo	det
17	echo	echo	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 answered	nsubj
18	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cried	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 answered	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		that			tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	manner				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	stand	gerund	manner not said here			instantly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	answer speech: assert	past	a echo		manner		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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