The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 35

‘Ah, to think of it!’ exclaimed he, striking his hands together, and he sat down beside them and wept too.

Who acts: farmer · What happens: think, exclaim, strike, sit down, weep · To what, where: farmer, hands · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (farmer), 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	_	5 think	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	5 think	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 think	punct
4	to	to	PART	_	5 think	mark
5	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 exclaimed	ccomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 think	obl
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 think	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 think	punct
10	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 exclaimed	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 striking	punct
13	striking	strike	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 exclaimed	advcl
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 hands	nmod:poss
15	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 striking	obj
16	together	together	ADV	_	13 striking	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sat	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 sat	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 sat	nsubj
20	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 exclaimed	parataxis
21	down	down	ADP	_	20 sat	compound:prt
22	beside	beside	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 sat	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 wept	cc
25	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 sat	conj
26	too	too	ADV	_	25 wept	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	to-infinitive			of saddle	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	exclaim speech: express	past		farmer		tree rules
3	strike	gerund		farmer's hands	together property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
4	sit down	past	farmer		beside hands = hand	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside they=Location
5	weep	past	farmer not said here			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: 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.

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