The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 270

‘Oh! dear me, where am I?’ she cried.

Who acts: I, bit · What happens: be, 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 (I, bit), 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	_	4 dear	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 dear	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 dear	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 where	punct
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 cried	advmod
8	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 where	cop
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 where	nsubj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 where	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 where	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 cried	nsubj
13	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dear	advcl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	I					where property	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	bit						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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