The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 25

‘Stop!’ cried the horse again.

What happens: stop, cry · To what, where: horse

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 Stop	punct
2	Stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 cried	parataxis
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Stop	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Stop	punct
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 horse	det
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obj
8	again	again	ADV	_	5 cried	advmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	infinitive							vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	cry speech: express	past		the horse			again		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=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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