The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 286

‘Father! it is she! it is Zizi!’ exclaimed Désiré, who entered at this moment.

Who acts: pin, Father, Désiré · What happens: be, exclaim, enter · To what, where: Famine, Zizi, Désiré

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 (pin, Father, Désiré), 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	_	2 Father	punct
2	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 exclaimed	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Father	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 she	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 she	cop
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Father	appos
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Father	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 Zizi	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 Zizi	cop
10	Zizi	Zizi	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Father	conj
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Father	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Father	punct
13	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	Désiré	Désiré	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 exclaimed	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 entered	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 entered	nsubj
17	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 Désiré	acl:relcl
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 moment	case
19	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 moment	det
20	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 entered	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	is a	present	pin	Famine		tree rules
2	is a	present	pin	Zizi		tree rules
3	exclaim speech: express	past	Father and Zizi	Désiré		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent désiré=Topic
4	enter	past	Désiré		moment	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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