The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 6

Ahmed!” cried she, and immediately a huge negro, as tall as a giant, stood on the bridge before her.

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

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 (Ahmed), 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	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cried	nsubj
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Ahmed	punct
3	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Ahmed	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	_	11 negro	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 negro	cc
8	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	11 negro	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 negro	det
10	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 negro	amod
11	negro	negro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cried	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tall	punct
13	as	as	ADV	_	14 tall	advmod
14	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 negro	amod
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 giant	mark
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 giant	det
17	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tall	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 stood	punct
19	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cried	conj
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 bridge	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bridge	det
22	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stood	obl
23	before	before	ADP	_	24 her	case
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 stood	obl
25	.	.	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	Ahmed	woman				a huge negro obl	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic
2	stand in a quote	past	Ahmed not said here			the bridge	before Ahmed		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bridge=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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