The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 40

‘Engaged!’ exclaimed the shirt-collar.

What happens: engage, exclaim · To what, where: shirt collar

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	_	2 Engaged	punct
2	Engaged	engage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 exclaimed	advcl
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Engaged	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Engaged	punct
5	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 collar	det
7	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 collar	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 shirt	punct
9	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 exclaimed	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	engage	participle							vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	exclaim speech: express	past		the shirt collar					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent collar=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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