The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 156
‘Music! music!’ cried the Emperor.
Who acts: Music · What happens: cry · To what, where: Emperor
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Music), 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 Music | punct |
| 2 | Music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 music | punct |
| 4 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Music | appos |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Music | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Music | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Emperor | det |
| 9 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Music | the Emperor | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent emperor=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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