The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 148

“Princess,” said he, “you at least can never need this water, but I am an unhappy ambassador, whose death you desire.

Who acts: Princess, man, you, unhappy ambassador · What happens: say, not need, be, desire, die · To what, where: water, unhappy ambassador, death · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, man, you, unhappy ambassador), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

Pragmatics

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.

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