The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 59

“Malicious Sprite,” she cried, “why do you begrudge me my playmates—the greatest delight of my lonely hours?

Who acts: Malicious, you, lonely hours · What happens: cry, begrudge, delight · To what, where: greatest delight, Malicious · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Malicious, you, lonely hours), 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	_	2 Malicious	punct
2	Malicious	Malicious	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 cried	nsubj
3	Sprite	Sprite	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Malicious	flat
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Malicious	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Malicious	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cried	nsubj
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 begrudge	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 begrudge	punct
10	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	13 begrudge	advmod
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 begrudge	aux
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 begrudge	nsubj
13	begrudge	begrudge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 cried	conj
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 begrudge	obj
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 playmates	nmod:poss
16	playmates	playmate	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 begrudge	obj
17	—	-	PUNCT	_	20 delight	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 delight	det
19	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 delight	amod
20	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 hours	case
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 hours	nmod:poss
23	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 hours	amod
24	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 delight	nmod
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Malicious	the greatest delight of my lonely hours	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	begrudge in a quote	present · do-support	you	Malicious	tree rules
3	delight in a quote		my lonely hours		nom delight «feeling intransitive»: of=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 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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