The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 56
“What a pity!” said the princess, “he is mad!”
Who acts: pity · What happens: pity, say, be · To what, where: princess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pity), 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 | _ | 4 pity | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 pity | nsubj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 pity | det |
| 4 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 pity | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 pity | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 princess | det |
| 9 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 mad | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 mad | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 mad | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 mad | cop |
| 14 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | ccomp |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 mad | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 mad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pity in a quote | tree rules | |||||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | a pity | the princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent princess=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | pity | mad property | tree rules |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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