The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 97

And the elands all cried: “Wretched man! it is you whom the ogre should eat, and not your beautiful daughter.”

Who acts: elands, hut, ogre · What happens: cry, be, eat · To what, where: Wretched man, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elands, hut, ogre), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 cried	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 elands	det
3	elands	eland	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cried	nsubj
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 cried	advmod
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 man	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 man	punct
8	Wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obl
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 man	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 you	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 you	cop
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 cried	parataxis
14	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 cried	obj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ogre	det
16	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 eat	nsubj
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 eat	aux
18	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 whom	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 daughter	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 daughter	cc
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 daughter	advmod
22	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 daughter	nmod:poss
23	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 daughter	amod
24	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 daughter	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	24 daughter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	the elands	Wretched man	your beautiful daughter obl; all property	tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	hut	you		tree rules
3	eat in a quote	should	the ogre			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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