Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 143

"Ah! now, look, there they are," cried Donald, as he pointed to the clouds in the lake.

Who acts: you, cattle, Donald · What happens: look, be, cry, point · To what, where: clouds, lake · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, cattle, Donald), 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	_	6 look	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	6 look	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 look	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 now	punct
6	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 look	punct
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 are	expl
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 are	nsubj
10	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 look	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cried	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 cried	punct
13	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 are	parataxis
14	Donald	Donald	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 cried	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 pointed	punct
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 pointed	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 pointed	nsubj
18	pointed	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 cried	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 clouds	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 clouds	det
21	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 pointed	obl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 lake	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 lake	det
24	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pointed	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	look in a quote	imperative	you not said here			now	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	does in a quote	present	cattle		there		tree rules
3	cry speech: express	past	Donald				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	point	past	Donald	the clouds	the lake		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to cloud=Recipient

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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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