The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 96
“Oh, lady, my nuts have been stolen!” he cried.
Who acts: sun · What happens: steal, cry · To what, where: lady · 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 (sun), 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 stolen | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 lady | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stolen | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lady | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 nuts | nmod:poss |
| 7 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 stolen | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 stolen | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 stolen | aux:pass |
| 10 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 cried | advcl |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 stolen | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 stolen | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 cried | nsubj |
| 14 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal in a quote | present · perfect · passive | lady | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | sun | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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