The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 38

“Dear me, how thirsty I am!” cried the giant by-and-by.

Who acts: I · What happens: be, cry · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	_	6 thirsty	punct
2	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thirsty	csubj
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Dear	iobj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 thirsty	punct
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 thirsty	advmod
6	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cried	parataxis
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 thirsty	nsubj
8	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 thirsty	cop
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 thirsty	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 thirsty	punct
11	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 giant	det
13	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cried	xcomp
14	by	by	ADP	_	13 giant	fixed
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 by	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 by	cc
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 by	punct
18	by	by	ADP	_	14 by	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	I					thirsty property	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past						giant property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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