The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 91
“Stop, kind friends!” cried the Prince.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: stop, cry · To what, where: kind friends · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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 | _ | 2 Stop | punct |
| 2 | Stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 cried | parataxis |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 friends | punct |
| 4 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 friends | amod |
| 5 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Stop | obl |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stop | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stop | punct |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Prince | det |
| 10 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop in a quote | infinitive | kind friends | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the Prince | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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