The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 21

Mahomet!” cried she, with all her might; and in an instant a negro, still larger than the last, stood before her.

Who acts: Mahomet · What happens: cry, stand · To what, where: woman

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mahomet), 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	Mahomet	mahomet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cried	nsubj
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Mahomet	punct
3	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Mahomet	punct
4	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cried	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 might	punct
7	with	with	SCONJ	_	10 might	mark
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 might	det:predet
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 might	nsubj
10	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 cried	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 larger	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 larger	cc
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 instant	case
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 instant	det
15	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 larger	obl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 negro	det
17	negro	negro	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 larger	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 larger	punct
19	still	still	ADV	_	20 larger	advmod
20	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 cried	conj
21	than	than	ADP	_	23 last	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 last	det
23	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 larger	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 stood	punct
25	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 larger	conj
26	before	before	ADP	_	27 her	case
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 stood	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express in a quote	past	Mahomet	woman					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic
2	stand in a quote	past	Mahomet not said here				before Mahomet		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before she=Location

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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