The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 53
“Oh!” cried the woman, “what a state you are in!
Who acts: woman, state · What happens: cry, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, state), 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 | _ | 5 cried | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 cried | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 woman | det |
| 7 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 what | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 what | punct |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 cried | obl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 state | det |
| 12 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 in | nsubj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 in | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 in | cop |
| 15 | in | in | ADV | _ | 10 what | acl:relcl |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | the woman | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | a state | in property | tree rules |
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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