The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 15
“But, your Majesty, it is not possible,” cried the poor man in despair.
Who acts: Majesty, poor man · What happens: not be, cry · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Majesty, poor man), 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 | _ | 10 possible | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 Majesty | cc |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 But | punct |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 possible | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Majesty | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 possible | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 possible | cop |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 possible | advmod |
| 10 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cried | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 possible | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 possible | punct |
| 13 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 15 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cried | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 despair | case |
| 18 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 man | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | your Majesty | possible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the poor man | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: 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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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