The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 14

“Oh, little, little fox, don’t talk of dying,” cried the princess, nearly weeping, for she had taken a great liking to the fox.

Who acts: little little fox, princess · What happens: not talk, die, cry, weep, take · To what, where: great liking, fox · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little little fox, princess), 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	_	7 fox	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 little	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fox	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 little	punct
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fox	amod
7	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cried	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 talk	punct
9	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 talk	aux
10	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 talk	advmod
11	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 fox	acl:relcl
12	of	of	SCONJ	_	13 dying	mark
13	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 talk	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fox	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 fox	punct
16	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 princess	det
18	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cried	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 weeping	punct
20	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	21 weeping	advmod
21	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 cried	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 taken	punct
23	for	for	SCONJ	_	26 taken	mark
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 taken	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 taken	aux
26	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 cried	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 liking	det
28	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 liking	amod
29	liking	liking	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 taken	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 fox	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 fox	det
32	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 taken	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not talk in a quote	infinitive · do-support	little little fox not said here				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	die in a quote	gerund	little little fox not said here				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	cry speech: express	past	the princess				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	weep	gerund	the princess not said here			nearly property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	take	past · perfect	princess	a great liking	the fox		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent liking=Theme to fox=Destination

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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