The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 55
‘Hallo!’ he cried to him,’ what are you seeking?
Who acts: Hallo, you · What happens: cry, seek · To what, where: man
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hallo, you), 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 Hallo | punct |
| 2 | Hallo | Hallo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hallo | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hallo | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cried | nsubj |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cried | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seeking | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | SCONJ | _ | 14 seeking | mark |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 seeking | obj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 seeking | aux |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 seeking | nsubj |
| 14 | seeking | seek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 cried | advcl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Hallo | man | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | seek | present · progressive | you | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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 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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