The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 122
It is terrible!’ and she moaned and cried.
Who acts: much, Court · What happens: be, moan, cry
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (much, Court), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 terrible | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 terrible | cop |
| 3 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 terrible | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 terrible | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 moaned | cc |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 moaned | nsubj |
| 8 | moaned | moan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 terrible | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 cried | cc |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 moaned | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 terrible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | much | terrible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | moan | past | Court | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | Court not said here | 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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