The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 60
‘Dear me!’ exclaimed the dragon, looking round.
Who acts: me · What happens: exclaim, look round · To what, where: dragon
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 (me), 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 me | punct |
| 2 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 me | amod |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 me | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 me | punct |
| 6 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dragon | det |
| 8 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 exclaimed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 looking | punct |
| 10 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 exclaimed | advcl |
| 11 | round | round | ADV | _ | 10 looking | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | past | me | the dragon | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dragon=Topic | ||||
| 2 | look round | gerund | me not said here | round property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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