The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 66
‘Look here!’ he cried in horror, ‘this chicken is quite useless.
Who acts: cook, chicken · What happens: look, cry, be · To what, where: horror · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Half-chick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cook, chicken), 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 Look | punct |
| 2 | Look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 cried | ccomp |
| 3 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Look | advmod |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 horror | case |
| 9 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 useless | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 useless | punct |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 chicken | det |
| 13 | chicken | chicken | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 useless | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 useless | cop |
| 15 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 16 useless | advmod |
| 16 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cried | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | infinitive | here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | cook | horror | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is | present | this chicken | useless 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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