The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 10

‘What a beautiful beginning!” said all the plates.

Who acts: beautiful beginning · What happens: say · To what, where: plates · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful beginning), 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 beginning	punct
2	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	5 beginning	det:predet
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 beginning	det
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 beginning	amod
5	beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 beginning	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 beginning	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 plates	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 plates	det
11	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 said	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	what beautiful beginning	all plates					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent plate=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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