The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 13
She was in high spirits, and cried out: ‘Oh husband! how can this all have happened?
Who acts: wife, high spirits · What happens: be, cry out, happen · To what, where: high spirits
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, high spirits), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 spirits | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spirits | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 spirits | case |
| 4 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 spirits | amod |
| 5 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 happened | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 cried | cc |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spirits | conj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 cried | compound:prt |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 spirits | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 husband | punct |
| 12 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 13 husband | discourse |
| 13 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 can | nsubj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 husband | punct |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 can | advmod |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 happened | aux |
| 17 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 can | nsubj |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 happened | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 happened | aux |
| 20 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 20 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | wife | high spirits | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry out speech: express | past | wife not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | happen | can · perfect | high spirits | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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