The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 182

‘What!’ she cried, ‘feed people who were as happy as all that!

Who acts: rest, people · What happens: cry, feed, be · To what, where: people

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rest, people), 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 What	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 cried	obj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cried	nsubj
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 feed	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 feed	punct
9	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 cried	conj
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 feed	obj
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 happy	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 happy	cop
13	as	as	ADV	_	14 happy	advmod
14	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 people	acl:relcl
15	as	as	ADP	_	17 that	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 that	det:predet
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 happy	obl
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	rest			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
2	feed	infinitive	rest not said here	people		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient
3	is	past	people		as people; happy property	tree rules

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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