The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 74
“Oh, lady,” he cried, “look at me now!
Who acts: lady · What happens: cry, look · 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 (lady), 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 | _ | 4 lady | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 lady | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lady | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 lady | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 cried | nsubj |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 look | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 look | punct |
| 11 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 cried | advcl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 me | case |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 look | obl |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 look | advmod |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | lady | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | look in a quote | infinitive | lady not said here | now | at lady | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at i=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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