The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 39

‘Look, sisters,’ cried one, ‘surely that is the old woman that the king sent for.

Who acts: that · What happens: look, cry, be, send · To what, where: sisters, one, old woman, king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that), 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	_	2 Look	punct
2	Look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 cried	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sisters	punct
4	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Look	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 cried	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 woman	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 woman	punct
11	surely	surely	ADV	_	16 woman	advmod
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 woman	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 woman	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 woman	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 woman	amod
16	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 king	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 king	det
19	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 woman	appos
20	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 king	acl
21	for	for	ADP	_	20 sent	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	infinitive		sisters		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	cry speech: express	past		one		tree rules
3	is a	present	that	the old woman	surely property	tree rules
4	send	participle		the king not said here		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: 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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