Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 97
"Joy! joy!" cried he, clapping his hands. "
Who acts: Joy joy · What happens: cry, clap · To what, where: hands
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Joy joy), 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 Joy | punct |
| 2 | Joy | Joy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 joy | compound |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Joy | punct |
| 4 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 joy | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 joy | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 clapping | punct |
| 10 | clapping | clap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 cried | advcl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hands | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 clapping | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Joy joy | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | clap | gerund | Joy joy not said here | joy's hands | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=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: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (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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