The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 35

“Ah!” cried the false princess, “why do you misunderstand my tears?

Who acts: false princess, you · What happens: cry, misunderstand · To what, where: tears · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (false princess, you), 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 cried	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	5 cried	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 princess	det
7	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 princess	amod
8	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 misunderstand	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 misunderstand	punct
11	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	14 misunderstand	advmod
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 misunderstand	aux
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 misunderstand	nsubj
14	misunderstand	misunderstand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 cried	conj
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 tears	nmod:poss
16	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 misunderstand	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	the false princess						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	misunderstand in a quote	present · do-support	you	my tears					vn comprehend-87.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tear=Stimulus

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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