The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 36

‘Good gracious! how many there are! how many!’ he muttered to himself.

Who acts: many, Stan · What happens: be, mutter · To what, where: Stan

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many, Stan), 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	_	3 gracious	punct
2	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gracious	amod
3	gracious	gracious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 muttered	ccomp
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 gracious	punct
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 many	advmod
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 are	nsubj
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 are	expl
8	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 gracious	parataxis
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 gracious	punct
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 many	advmod
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gracious	advcl
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 gracious	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 gracious	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 muttered	nsubj
15	muttered	mutter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 himself	case
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 muttered	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 muttered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	many			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	mutter speech: assert	past	Stan		Stan				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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