The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 191

Upon this the people cried with one accord, ‘We will, we will! we have been gloomy and miserable too long already.’

Who acts: people, we · What happens: cry, be

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, we), 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 this	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 cried	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 people	det
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cried	nsubj
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 accord	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 accord	nummod
8	accord	accord	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 gloomy	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 gloomy	punct
11	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 will	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 gloomy	aux
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 will	punct
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 will	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 will	conj
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 will	punct
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 gloomy	nsubj
18	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 gloomy	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 gloomy	cop
20	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cried	parataxis
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 miserable	cc
22	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 gloomy	conj
23	too	too	ADV	_	24 long	advmod
24	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 gloomy	advmod
25	already	already	ADV	_	24 long	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 gloomy	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	the people	upon this; with one accord	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with accord=Theme
2	is	future · perfect	we	gloomy, long property	tree rules
3	be		we not said here		tree rules

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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