The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 59
Ciccu!’ whispered his brothers, horrified at this extravagance, ‘are you mad?
Who acts: Ciccu, mad · What happens: whisper, horrify, be · To what, where: brothers, extravagance
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ciccu, mad), 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 | Ciccu | Ciccu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 whispered | nsubj |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ciccu | punct |
| 3 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ciccu | punct |
| 4 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 6 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 whispered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 horrified | punct |
| 8 | horrified | horrify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 whispered | conj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 extravagance | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 extravagance | det |
| 11 | extravagance | extravagance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 horrified | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 are | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ‘ | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 are | expl |
| 14 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 whispered | conj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 mad | nsubj |
| 16 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 are | nsubj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 whispered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whisper speech: assert | past | Ciccu | Ciccu's brothers | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Topic | ||||
| 2 | horrify | participle | Ciccu not said here | this extravagance | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | be | present | mad | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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