The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 57
She cried out to the prince: “O Prince Almas! what is hardest to get is most valued.
Who acts: afruz, Almas · What happens: cry out, be, get, value · To what, where: prince · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (afruz, Almas), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 cried | nsubj |
| 2 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 cried | compound:prt |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 prince | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 prince | det |
| 6 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cried | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 hardest | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 hardest | punct |
| 9 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 11 Almas | discourse |
| 10 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Almas | nmod:desc |
| 11 | Almas | Almas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 hardest | nsubj |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 Almas | punct |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 hardest | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 hardest | cop |
| 15 | hardest | hard | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 valued | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 get | mark |
| 17 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 hardest | acl |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 valued | aux:pass |
| 19 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 20 valued | advmod |
| 20 | valued | value | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 cried | parataxis |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry out speech: express | past | afruz | the prince | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to prince=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Almas Prince | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get in a quote | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | value in a quote | present · passive | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» |
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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