Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 135
"What a large cemetery!" exclaimed the young man.
Who acts: large cemetery · What happens: cemetery, exclaim · To what, where: young man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (large cemetery), 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 | _ | 5 cemetery | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 cemetery | nsubj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cemetery | det |
| 4 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cemetery | amod |
| 5 | cemetery | cemetery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 cemetery | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cemetery | punct |
| 8 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 exclaimed | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cemetery in a quote | tree rules | |||||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | a large cemetery | the young man | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/25/135/