The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 16
‘A gentle son-in-law, truly!’ he cried, writhing with pain.
Who acts: gentle son · What happens: cry, writhe
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gentle son), 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 | _ | 14 cried | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 son | det |
| 3 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 son | amod |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 law | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 law | case |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 in | punct |
| 8 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 truly | punct |
| 10 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 14 cried | advmod |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 truly | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 truly | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 cried | nsubj |
| 14 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 writhing | punct |
| 16 | writhing | writhe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 cried | advcl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 pain | case |
| 18 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 writhing | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | a gentle son in law | truly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | writhe | gerund | a gentle son in law not said here | with pain | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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