The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 111

‘Silly boy!’ cried the hermit, ‘Accept his terms at once.

Who acts: Silly boy, Hermit · What happens: cry, accept, term · To what, where: hermit, terms

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Silly boy, Hermit), 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 boy	punct
2	Silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 boy	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 boy	punct
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hermit	det
8	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Accept	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 Accept	punct
11	Accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 cried	conj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 terms	nmod:poss
13	terms	term	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 Accept	obj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 once	case
15	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 Accept	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Silly boy	the hermit	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hermit=Topic
2	accept	infinitive	Silly boy not said here	Hermit's terms	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent term=Theme
3	term		Hermit		nom term «communication transitive»: poss=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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