The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 105

‘Eat a worm!’ cried Lisa.

What happens: eat, cry · To what, where: worm, Lisa · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. 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 Eat	punct
2	Eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 cried	ccomp
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 worm	det
4	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Eat	obj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Eat	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Eat	punct
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Lisa	Lisa	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	infinitive		a worm					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worm=Patient
2	cry speech: express	past		Lisa					tree rules

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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