The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 57

‘Good heavens!’ cried his wife.

Who acts: Good heavens · What happens: cry · To what, where: wife

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Good heavens), 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 heavens	punct
2	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 heavens	amod
3	heavens	heaven	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cried	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 heavens	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 heavens	punct
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wife	nmod:poss
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Good heavens	fish's wife					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=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 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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