The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 137
When Master Joseph heard him he cried out as loud as he could, ‘I won’t; I won’t, I say.’
Who acts: Master, swineherd, I · What happens: hear, cry out, say · To what, where: swineherd · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Master, swineherd, I), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | Joseph | Joseph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Master | flat |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cried | advcl |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 cried | compound:prt |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 loud | advmod |
| 10 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cried | xcomp |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 could | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 could | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 loud | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ‘ | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 wo | nsubj |
| 17 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 ‘ | acl:relcl |
| 18 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 wo | advmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 wo | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 wo | nsubj |
| 21 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 cried | conj |
| 22 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 wo | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 say | punct |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 say | nsubj |
| 25 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 cried | parataxis |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Master | swineherd | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | cry out speech: express | past | swineherd | loud property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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