The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 17

“My dear little fox, you are not dead,” she wailed; “you poor, poor little creature, you shall have the finest coffin in the world!”

Who acts: dear little fox, princess, you · What happens: not be, wail, have · To what, where: finest coffin, world · 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 (dear little fox, princess, you), 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 dead	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 fox	nmod:poss
3	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fox	amod
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fox	amod
5	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dead	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fox	punct
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 dead	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 dead	cop
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 dead	advmod
10	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 wailed	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 dead	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 dead	punct
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 wailed	nsubj
14	wailed	wail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 poor	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 poor	punct
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 poor	nsubj
18	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 wailed	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 creature	punct
20	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 creature	amod
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 creature	amod
22	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 poor	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 have	punct
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 have	nsubj
25	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 have	aux
26	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 wailed	parataxis
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 coffin	det
28	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	29 coffin	amod
29	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 have	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 world	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 world	det
32	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 coffin	nmod
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	26 have	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	26 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	present	My dear little fox			dead property	tree rules
2	wail	past	princess				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have in a quote	shall	you	the finest coffin	the world		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coffin=Patient

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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