The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 33
‘Impossible!’ cried King Charming.
What happens: cry · To what, where: Charming
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 Impossible | punct |
| 2 | Impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cried | parataxis |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Impossible | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Impossible | punct |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Charming | nmod:desc |
| 7 | Charming | Charming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Charming King | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charming=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 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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