The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 64
Upon which he cried out with great earnestness, but not in the most poetical manner:
Who acts: unseasonable · What happens: cry out · To what, where: poetical manner
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Whittington. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (unseasonable), 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 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 2 which | case |
| 2 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 cried | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 cried | compound:prt |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 earnestness | case |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 earnestness | amod |
| 8 | earnestness | earnestness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cried | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 manner | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 manner | cc |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 manner | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 manner | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 manner | det |
| 14 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 15 poetical | advmod |
| 15 | poetical | poetical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 manner | amod |
| 16 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cried | obl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 manner | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry out speech: express | past | unseasonable | the poetical manner | with great earnestness | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with earnestness=Theme |
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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