The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 93
“What lovely sheep! whose are they?” cried Helga.
Who acts: lovely sheep, sheep · What happens: sheep, be, cry · To what, where: sheep, Helga · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lovely sheep, sheep), 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 | _ | 11 cried | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 sheep | nsubj |
| 3 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sheep | amod |
| 4 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 they | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 sheep | punct |
| 6 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 4 sheep | conj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 they | cop |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 cried | nsubj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 they | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 they | punct |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Helga | Helga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sheep in a quote | tree rules | |||||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | lovely sheep | sheep | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | sheep | Helga | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent helga=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 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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