The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 107
‘A sackful of money?’ cried his wife.
Who acts: sackful · What happens: cry · To what, where: wife
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sackful), 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 sackful | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sackful | det |
| 3 | sackful | sackful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 money | case |
| 5 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sackful | nmod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 sackful | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 sackful | punct |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wife | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | a sackful of money | sackful's wife | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Topic |
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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