The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 98

‘Kill it!’ cried Otto.

What happens: kill, cry · To what, where: net, Otto

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 Kill	punct
2	Kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 cried	parataxis
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Kill	obj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Kill	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Kill	punct
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Otto	Otto	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 cried	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	infinitive		net					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past		Otto					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent otto=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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