The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 86

“You!” cried Bellissima, starting back.

Who acts: You · What happens: cry, start back · To what, where: Bellissima

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 (You), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 cried	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 You	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 You	punct
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Bellissima	Bellissima	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 starting	punct
8	starting	start	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 cried	advcl
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 starting	advmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	You	Bellissima					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bellissima=Topic
2	start back	gerund	You not said here						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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