The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 113

'Oh, you horrid plank, you have brought me ill-luck!' she cried.

Who acts: you, pot · What happens: plank, bring, cry · To what, where: ill luck, me

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, pot), 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 brought	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	10 brought	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 plank	nsubj
5	horrid	horrid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 plank	amod
6	plank	plank	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Oh	acl:relcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 brought	nsubj
9	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 brought	aux
10	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 cried	parataxis
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 brought	obj
12	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 luck	amod
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 ill	punct
14	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 brought	obj
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 brought	punct
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 brought	punct
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 cried	nsubj
18	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	plank		you			tree rules
2	bring	present · perfect	you	ill luck	me	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination luck=Theme
3	cry speech: express	past	pot			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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