The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 51

‘Dear, dear!’ exclaimed the young man.

What happens: exclaim · To what, where: young man

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	_	2 Dear	punct
2	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 exclaimed	parataxis
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dear	punct
4	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Dear	conj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Dear	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Dear	punct
7	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 exclaimed	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exclaim speech: express	past		the young man					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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