The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 56

“A man! a man!” cried she; but when the guards rushed in there was only a bumble-bee buzzing about the room.

Who acts: man, guards, bee buzzing · What happens: cry, rush, be · To what, where: princess

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, guards, bee buzzing), 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	_	9 cried	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cried	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 man	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 man	appos
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 man	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 man	punct
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cried	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 rushed	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 rushed	cc
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 rushed	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 guards	det
15	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 rushed	nsubj
16	rushed	rush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 cried	conj
17	in	in	SCONJ	_	19 was	mark
18	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 was	expl
19	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 rushed	advcl
20	only	only	ADV	_	25 buzzing	advmod
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 buzzing	det
22	bumble	bumble	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bee	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 bumble	punct
24	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 buzzing	compound
25	buzzing	buzzing	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 was	nsubj
26	about	about	ADP	_	28 room	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 room	det
28	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 buzzing	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	a man	princess		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic
2	rush	participle	the guards			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	be	past	a bee buzzing about the room		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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