The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 99

‘Weren’t they silly?’ cried the grandchildren of the charcoal-burners when they heard the story.

Who acts: room, silly · What happens: not be, cry, hear · To what, where: grandchildren, story

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (room, silly), 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 silly	punct
2	Were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 silly	cop
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 silly	advmod
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 silly	nsubj
5	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cried	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 silly	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 silly	punct
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 grandchildren	det
10	grandchildren	grandchild	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 cried	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 burners	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 burners	det
13	charcoal	charcoal	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 burners	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 charcoal	punct
15	burners	burner	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 grandchildren	nmod
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 heard	advmod
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 heard	nsubj
18	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cried	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 story	det
20	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 heard	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	past	room		silly property	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	silly	the grandchildren of the charcoal burners		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandchild=Topic
3	hear	past	room	the story		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus

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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