The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 93

The children clapped their hands and cried, ‘Another! another!’

Who acts: children · What happens: clap, cry · To what, where: hands

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 clapped	nsubj
3	clapped	clap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hands	nmod:poss
5	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 clapped	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 cried	cc
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 clapped	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Another	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 Another	punct
10	Another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	7 cried	conj
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 Another	punct
12	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	10 Another	conj
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 clapped	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 clapped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clap	past	the children	children's hands					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past	the children not said here						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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