The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 53
‘Look!’ he suddenly exclaimed with a cry, ‘Look!
Who acts: you, pair · What happens: look, exclaim
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, pair), 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 Look | punct |
| 2 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 6 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 7 exclaimed | advmod |
| 7 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Look | advcl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 cry | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 cry | det |
| 10 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 exclaimed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Look | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 Look | punct |
| 13 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Look | conj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | imperative | you not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | pair | with a cry; suddenly property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | look | infinitive | you not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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