The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 101
“What a useless creature you are!” cried he.
Who acts: useless creature · What happens: cry · To what, where: Wolverine
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (useless creature), 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 | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 2 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 5 creature | det:predet |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 creature | det |
| 4 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 creature | amod |
| 5 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | nsubj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 are | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 creature | acl:relcl |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 creature | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 creature | punct |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cried | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | what useless creature | Wolverine | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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