The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 89
‘Oh! what beautiful, beautiful creatures!’ said she.
Who acts: beautiful beautiful creatures · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (beautiful beautiful creatures), 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 what | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 what | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 creatures | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 beautiful | punct |
| 7 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 creatures | amod |
| 8 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 said | nsubj |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 creatures | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 creatures | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | acl:relcl |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | beautiful beautiful creatures | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/34/89/