The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 50

‘Oh, what nonsense!’ cried he.

Who acts: nonsense · What happens: nonsense, cry

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nonsense), 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	_	5 nonsense	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 nonsense	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 nonsense	nsubj
5	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cried	nsubj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 nonsense	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 nonsense	punct
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cried	nsubj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nonsense								tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	nonsense						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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