The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 100

‘What a wonder!’ cried Long Nose.

Who acts: wonder · What happens: cry · To what, where: Long Nose

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wonder), 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	_	4 wonder	punct
2	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	4 wonder	det
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 wonder	det
4	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	nsubj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 wonder	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 wonder	punct
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Nose	amod
9	Nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	what wonder	Long Nose					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=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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