The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 124

‘Why, there are twenty others in the house, and each fairer than she!’ exclaimed the Gruagach.

Who acts: girl · What happens: be, exclaim · To what, where: Gruagach

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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 fairer	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	14 fairer	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 are	punct
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 are	expl
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 fairer	cop
6	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 others	nummod
7	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 are	nsubj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 house	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 house	det
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 others	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fairer	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fairer	cc
13	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	14 fairer	det
14	fairer	fair	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
15	than	than	SCONJ	_	19 exclaimed	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 exclaimed	nsubj
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 she	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 she	punct
19	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 fairer	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Gruagach	det
21	Gruagach	Gruagach	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 exclaimed	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 fairer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fair property	tree rules
2	exclaim speech: express	past	girl	the Gruagach					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent gruagach=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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