The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 93

‘That’s a nice sort of fellow!’ he suddenly exclaimed.

Who acts: That, sort · What happens: be, exclaim · To what, where: nice sort

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 (That, sort), 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	_	6 sort	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 sort	nsubj
3	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sort	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sort	det
5	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sort	amod
6	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 exclaimed	parataxis
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 fellow	case
8	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sort	nmod
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 sort	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 sort	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 exclaimed	nsubj
12	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	13 exclaimed	advmod
13	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	That	a nice sort				of fellow	tree rules
2	exclaim speech: express	past	sort					suddenly property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: 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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