The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 162

‘Goodness gracious!’ they cried, ‘what a beautiful child!’

Who acts: others · What happens: cry

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others), 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	_	3 gracious	punct
2	Goodness	goodness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gracious	compound
3	gracious	gracious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 gracious	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 gracious	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cried	nsubj
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gracious	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 cried	parataxis
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 child	det
12	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 child	amod
13	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 what	nsubj
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 gracious	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 gracious	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	others = other						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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