The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 11

“Oh, how stupid of me!” he cried, as the cat sprang up angrily, “let us go at once and search for it.

Who acts: brother, cat, us · What happens: cry, spring up, let, go, search · To what, where: us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, cat, us), 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	_	5 stupid	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 stupid	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 stupid	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 stupid	advmod
5	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cried	ccomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 stupid	obl
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 stupid	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 stupid	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 cried	nsubj
11	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sprang	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 sprang	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cat	det
15	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sprang	nsubj
16	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 cried	conj
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 sprang	compound:prt
18	angrily	angrily	ADV	_	16 sprang	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 let	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 let	punct
21	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 sprang	advcl
22	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 let	obj
23	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 let	xcomp
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 once	case
25	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	23 go	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 search	cc
27	search	search	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 let	conj
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 search	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	brother			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	spring up	past	the cat		angrily property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	let in a quote	infinitive	the cat not said here	us		tree rules
4	go in a quote	infinitive	us not said here			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location
5	search in a quote	infinitive	the cat not said here		for ball	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for it=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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