The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 120

‘Oh! no, no!’ cried the sexton.

What happens: cry · To what, where: sexton

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus. 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	_	9 cried	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	9 cried	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	2 Oh	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
6	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	2 Oh	discourse
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sexton	det
11	sexton	sexton	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cried	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past		the sexton					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sexton=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 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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