The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 178

‘What a pretty face!’ she exclaimed, ‘Why, it must be mine!

Who acts: woman, Titty · What happens: exclaim, be · To what, where: pretty face, mine

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, Titty), 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 face	punct
2	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	5 face	det:predet
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 face	det
4	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 face	amod
5	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 exclaimed	obl
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 face	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 face	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 exclaimed	nsubj
9	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Why	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 Why	punct
12	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 exclaimed	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 mine	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 mine	nsubj
15	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 mine	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 mine	cop
17	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 exclaimed	parataxis
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exclaim speech: express	past	woman	what pretty face					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	must	Titty	mine					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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