The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 59
‘Is she finished already?’ cried Barbaik, in a tone of disappointment.
Who acts: Barbaik · What happens: be, cry, intonate · To what, where: tone, disappointment
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Barbaik), 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 | _ | 4 finished | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 finished | cop |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 finished | nsubj |
| 4 | finished | finish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | already | already | ADV | _ | 4 finished | advmod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 finished | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 finished | punct |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 finished | conj |
| 9 | Barbaik | Barbaik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tone | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 tone | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tone | det |
| 13 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 disappointment | case |
| 15 | disappointment | disappointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tone | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 finished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Barbaik | finish property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Barbaik not said here | a tone of disappointment | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tone=Location | ||||
| 3 | intonate | disappointment | nom tone «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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