The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 100
“Oh!” cried she, “the lions are coming.
Who acts: lions · What happens: cry, come · To what, where: Princess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lions), 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 | _ | 5 cried | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 cried | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 cried | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 coming | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 coming | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lions | det |
| 10 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 coming | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 coming | aux |
| 12 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 cried | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 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 NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | |||||
| 2 | come in a quote | present · progressive | the lions | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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