The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 123
He cried so much that the glass splinter swam out of his eye; then he knew her, and cried out, ‘Gerda! dear little Gerda!
Who acts: Kay, glass splinter · What happens: cry, swim, know, cry out · To what, where: eye, Gerda
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kay, glass splinter), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 cried | nsubj |
| 2 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 much | advmod |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 2 cried | advmod |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 swam | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 splinter | det |
| 7 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 splinter | compound |
| 8 | splinter | splinter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 swam | nsubj |
| 9 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 cried | advcl |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 eye | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 eye | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 eye | nmod:poss |
| 13 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 swam | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 knew | punct |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 knew | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 knew | nsubj |
| 17 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 cried | parataxis |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 knew | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 cried | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 cried | cc |
| 21 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 cried | parataxis |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 cried | compound:prt |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Gerda | punct |
| 24 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 Gerda | punct |
| 25 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 cried | conj |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 25 Gerda | punct |
| 27 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Gerda | amod |
| 28 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Gerda | amod |
| 29 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Gerda | flat |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Kay | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | swim | past | the glass splinter | Kay's eye | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out eye=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | know | past | Kay | Gerda | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | cry out speech: express | past | 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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