The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 65
‘What a beautiful girl!’ exclaimed the men.
Who acts: beautiful girl · What happens: exclaim · To what, where: men
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 (beautiful girl), 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 girl | punct |
| 2 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 5 girl | det:predet |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 girl | det |
| 4 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 girl | amod |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 girl | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 girl | punct |
| 8 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 men | det |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 exclaimed | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | past | what beautiful girl | the men | 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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