The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 4
There he stood before the door, and cried: ‘Oh! you fine fellows, what a charming bride you have brought me!’
Who acts: youngest, you · What happens: stand, cry, fellow, charm, bring · To what, where: door, charming bride
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 (youngest, you), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 stood | expl |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | before | before | ADP | _ | 6 door | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 door | det |
| 6 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 cried | cc |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 fellows | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 fellows | punct |
| 12 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 16 fellows | discourse |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 Oh | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 fellows | nsubj |
| 15 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fellows | amod |
| 16 | fellows | fellow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stood | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 brought | punct |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 brought | obj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 bride | det |
| 20 | charming | charm | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 bride | amod |
| 21 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 brought | nsubj |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 brought | aux |
| 24 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 fellows | acl:relcl |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 brought | obj |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | youngest = young | the door; there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before door=Location | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | youngest = young not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fellow | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | charm | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | bring | present · perfect · passive | a charming bride | tree rules |
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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