The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 72

‘What!’ cried the old woman, in a rage.

What happens: cry · To what, where: old woman, rage

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: 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 cried	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woman	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 rage	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 rage	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 rage	det
12	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past		the old woman		a rage			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Topic

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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