The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 22
But before they had time to recover from their astonishment, Peronnik cried out:
Who acts: men, Peronnik · What happens: have, recover, cry out, astonish · To what, where: astonishment
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, Peronnik), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 cried | cc |
| 2 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 4 had | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 cried | advcl |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 recover | mark |
| 7 | recover | recover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 time | acl |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 astonishment | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 astonishment | nmod:poss |
| 10 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 recover | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
| 12 | Peronnik | Peronnik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 cried | nsubj |
| 13 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 cried | compound:prt |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | men = man | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | recover | to-infinitive | men = man not said here | men's astonishment | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from astonishment=Source | ||||
| 3 | cry out speech: express | past | Peronnik | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | astonish | men = man | nom astonishment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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