English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick, sentence 32

“Look here!” exclaimed Jack.

Who acts: Jack · What happens: look, exclaim · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack), 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	6 exclaimed	ccomp
3	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Look	advmod
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
6	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 exclaimed	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look in a quote	infinitive				here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	exclaim speech: express	past	Jack						vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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