The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 16

‘SEVEN YEARS AGO!’ cried Jem, with horror.

Who acts: SEVEN YEARS · What happens: cry · To what, where: Jem

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (SEVEN YEARS), 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 YEARS	punct
2	SEVEN	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 YEARS	nummod
3	YEARS	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cried	nsubj
4	AGO	ago	ADV	_	3 YEARS	advmod
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 YEARS	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 YEARS	punct
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Jem	Jem	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 horror	punct
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 horror	case
11	horror	horror	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	SEVEN YEARS	Jem				with horror	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jem=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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