The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 128

“What!” she said, “when he was so unkind to you?”

Who acts: Queen, Bruno · What happens: say, be · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, Bruno), 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	_	6 said	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 said	obj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 unkind	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 unkind	punct
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 unkind	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 unkind	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 unkind	cop
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 unkind	advmod
13	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	ccomp
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 you	case
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 unkind	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 unkind	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	Queen						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
2	is in a quote	past	Bruno		you			unkind 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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