The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 123
“That would be excellent,” cried the prince.
Who acts: That, prince · 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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, prince), 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 excellent | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 excellent | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 excellent | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 excellent | cop |
| 5 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cried | parataxis |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 excellent | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 excellent | punct |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 prince | det |
| 10 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | would | That | excellent property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the prince | 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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