The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 65
The Princess in her fright exclaimed, ‘That is the Crab himself!’
Who acts: Princess, That · What happens: exclaim, be, fright · To what, where: Crab
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, That), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Princess | det |
| 2 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 fright | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 fright | nmod:poss |
| 5 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Princess | nmod |
| 6 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Crab | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Crab | punct |
| 9 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 Crab | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 Crab | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Crab | det |
| 12 | Crab | Crab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 exclaimed | obj |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 Crab | nmod |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 Crab | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | past | the Princess in Princess's fright | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | That | the Crab | prince nmod | tree rules | |||
| 3 | fright | Princess | nom fright «feeling transitive»: poss=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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