The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 5

“Oh!” she cried, “what can they be?

Who acts: Princess, hands · What happens: cry, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, hands), 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	_	6 cried	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 cried	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cried	nsubj
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 be	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 be	punct
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 be	obj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 be	aux
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 be	nsubj
12	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 cried	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Princess						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	can in a quote	can	hands = hand						vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=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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