The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 44

‘Why, it must have been you who were crying out in the pot just now!’ exclaimed Houarn.

What happens: cry out, exclaim · To what, where: pot, Houarn

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. 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 Why	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	11 crying	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 been	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 been	aux
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 been	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 crying	aux
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 been	nsubj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 crying	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 crying	aux
11	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 exclaimed	advcl
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 crying	compound:prt
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 pot	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 pot	det
15	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 crying	obl
16	just	just	ADV	_	17 now	advmod
17	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 crying	advmod
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 crying	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 crying	punct
20	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	Houarn	Houarn	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 exclaimed	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry out speech: express	participle · progressive				the pot	now		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pot=Location
2	exclaim speech: express	past		Houarn					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent houarn=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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