The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 56
‘What a feast!’ he exclaimed; ‘will anyone come and share it?’
Who acts: man, anyone · What happens: exclaim, come, share · To what, where: feast, supply · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (man, anyone), 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 | _ | 4 feast | punct |
| 2 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 4 feast | det |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 feast | det |
| 4 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 exclaimed | obl |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 feast | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 feast | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 8 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 come | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 come | punct |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 come | aux |
| 12 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 come | nsubj |
| 13 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 exclaimed | ccomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 share | cc |
| 15 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 come | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 share | obj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 come | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | past | man | what feast | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | come | future | anyone | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | share | infinitive | anyone not said here | supply | 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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