The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 59
“Ah, how rash you are!” cried the princess, throwing her arms round his neck.
Who acts: rash · What happens: cry, throw · To what, where: princess, arms
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rash), 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 rash | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 rash | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 rash | punct |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 rash | advmod |
| 5 | rash | rash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | nsubj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 are | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 rash | acl:relcl |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 rash | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 rash | punct |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 princess | det |
| 12 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 throwing | punct |
| 14 | throwing | throw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 cried | advcl |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 arms | nmod:poss |
| 16 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 throwing | obj |
| 17 | round | round | ADP | _ | 19 neck | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 neck | nmod:poss |
| 19 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 throwing | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | rash | the princess | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Topic | ||||
| 2 | throw | gerund | rash not said here | rash's arms | round prince's neck | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme |
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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