The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 79

A wolf!’ cried Walter, and that was all he could say.

Who acts: wolf, Walter · What happens: cry, say · To what, where: Walter · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (wolf, Walter), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 wolf	det
2	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 wolf	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 wolf	punct
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Walter	Walter	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 all	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 all	cc
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 all	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 all	cop
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 cried	obl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 say	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 say	aux
14	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 all	acl:relcl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	a wolf	Walter				all obl	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent walter=Topic
2	say speech: assert	could	Walter						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.

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