The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 98
“But I can’t bring the princess here, little fox?” cried the young man in dismay.
Who acts: young man · What happens: not bring, cry · To what, where: princess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young 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 | _ | 6 bring | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 bring | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 bring | nsubj |
| 4 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 bring | aux |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 bring | advmod |
| 6 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 cried | parataxis |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 princess | det |
| 8 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bring | obj |
| 9 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 bring | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fox | punct |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fox | amod |
| 12 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bring | conj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 bring | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 bring | punct |
| 15 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 17 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 man | amod |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cried | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 dismay | case |
| 20 | dismay | dismay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 man | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bring in a quote | can | the young man = man | the princess | here | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument princess=Destination | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the young 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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