The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 34

‘Why, that is the fellow of the dirty shoe!’ he exclaimed when he saw it.

Who acts: that, shepherd · What happens: be, exclaim, see · To what, where: fellow, path

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, shepherd), 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	_	15 exclaimed	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	15 exclaimed	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fellow	punct
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 fellow	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fellow	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fellow	det
7	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 exclaimed	parataxis
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 shoe	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 shoe	det
10	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 shoe	amod
11	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fellow	nmod
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 shoe	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 shoe	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 exclaimed	nsubj
15	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 saw	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 saw	nsubj
18	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 exclaimed	advcl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 saw	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that	the fellow	of the dirty shoe	tree rules
2	exclaim speech: express	past	shepherd			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	see	past	shepherd	path		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «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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