The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 55
But the Admiral Cocked-Hat interrupted her, crying:
Who acts: Admiral Cocked · What happens: interrupt, cry · To what, where: nurse
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Admiral Cocked), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 interrupted | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Cocked | det |
| 3 | Admiral | Admiral | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Cocked | compound |
| 4 | Cocked | Cocked | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 interrupted | nsubj |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Hat | punct |
| 6 | Hat | Hat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Cocked | conj |
| 7 | interrupted | interrupt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 interrupted | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 crying | punct |
| 10 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 interrupted | advcl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 interrupted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | interrupt | past | the Admiral Cocked and Hat | nurse | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | gerund | the Admiral Cocked and Hat not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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