The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 38

'Oh, my child! my dear child! why were you ever born?' cried he, as soon as he could speak.

Who acts: dear child, king · What happens: bear, cry, speak · To what, where: you, child · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dear child, king), 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	_	5 child	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 child	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 child	nmod:poss
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cried	obl
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 child	punct
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 child	nmod:poss
8	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 child	amod
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cried	nsubj
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 child	punct
11	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	15 born	advmod
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 born	aux:pass
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 born	nsubj:pass
14	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	15 born	advmod
15	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 child	acl:relcl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 born	punct
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 born	punct
18	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 cried	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 soon	punct
21	as	as	ADV	_	22 soon	advmod
22	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 cried	advmod
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 speak	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 speak	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 speak	aux
26	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 soon	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	bear	past · passive		you	ever		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	cry speech: express	past	my dear child	my child		soon property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
3	speak speech: other	could	king				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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