The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 82
‘What a splendid coat!’ they will exclaim when they see me.
Who acts: women · What happens: exclaim, see · To what, where: me
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 (women), 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 coat | punct |
| 2 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 5 coat | det:predet |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 coat | det |
| 4 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 coat | amod |
| 5 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 coat | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 coat | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 exclaim | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 exclaim | aux |
| 10 | exclaim | exclaim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 coat | parataxis |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 see | advmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 see | nsubj |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 exclaim | advcl |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 see | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 coat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | future | women = woman | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | see | present | women = woman | me | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
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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