The Green Fairy Book, Fairy Gifts, sentence 23
‘Ah! madam,’ cried she, ‘what a place you sent me to that time!’
Who acts: madam, place · What happens: cry, send · To what, where: Fairy, me
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Fairy Gifts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (madam, place), 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 madam | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 4 madam | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 madam | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 madam | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cried | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 what | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 what | punct |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 cried | obl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 place | det |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sent | nsubj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 sent | nsubj |
| 15 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 what | acl:relcl |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 sent | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 time | case |
| 18 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 time | det |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sent | obl |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | madam | Fairy | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | ||||
| 2 | send | past | a place | me | time | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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