The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 44

“Oh! my,” she cried; “what beautiful gold wares!” she set down her pails, and examined one thing after the other.

Who acts: thing, beautiful gold wares · What happens: cry, set down, examine · To what, where: pails, one thing

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Trusty John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing, beautiful gold wares), 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	_	8 cried	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	8 cried	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 Oh	vocative
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cried	nsubj
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 set	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 set	punct
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 set	obj
12	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 wares	amod
13	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wares	compound
14	wares	ware	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 set	nsubj
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 wares	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 wares	punct
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 set	nsubj
18	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cried	advcl
19	down	down	ADP	_	18 set	compound:prt
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 pails	nmod:poss
21	pails	pail	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 set	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 examined	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 examined	cc
24	examined	examine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cried	conj
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 thing	nummod
26	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 examined	obj
27	after	after	ADP	_	29 other	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 other	det
29	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 examined	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	thing			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	set down	past	beautiful gold wares	thing's pails		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent what=Theme pail=Destination
3	examine	past	thing not said here	one thing	after the other	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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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