The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 57
‘Well, that is a wonderful piece of good fortune,’ cried he, as he sprang out to get it.
Who acts: that, wonderful piece, piece · What happens: be, cry, spring out, get · To what, where: wonderful piece, fortune
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: who acts (that, wonderful piece, piece), 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 | _ | 8 piece | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 8 piece | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 piece | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 piece | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 piece | det |
| 7 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 piece | amod |
| 8 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cried | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 fortune | case |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fortune | amod |
| 11 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 piece | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 piece | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 piece | punct |
| 14 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 cried | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sprang | punct |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 sprang | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 sprang | nsubj |
| 19 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 cried | conj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 sprang | compound:prt |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 get | mark |
| 22 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 sprang | advcl |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 get | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that | a wonderful piece | of good fortune | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | a wonderful piece | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | spring out | past | piece | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | piece not said here | fortune | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=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 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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