The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 113

‘What a wretched little creature!’ cried one brother.

Who acts: wretched little creature · What happens: cry · To what, where: one brother

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wretched little creature), 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	_	6 creature	punct
2	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	6 creature	det
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 creature	det
4	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 creature	amod
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 creature	amod
6	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cried	nsubj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 creature	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 creature	punct
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 brother	nummod
11	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cried	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	what wretched little creature	one brother					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=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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