English Fairy Tales, Fairy Ointment, sentence 34

The ointment!” cried the old pixy thief.

Who acts: ointment · What happens: cry · To what, where: old pixy thief

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fairy Ointment. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ointment), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ointment	det
2	ointment	ointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 ointment	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 ointment	punct
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 thief	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 thief	amod
8	pixy	pixy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 thief	amod
9	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express in a quote	past	the ointment	the old pixy thief					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thief=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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