The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 16

“What!” said the King angrily, “was that all you thought of, vain child?”

Who acts: you · What happens: say, think · To what, where: vain child · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 said	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 said	nsubj:outer
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
8	angrily	angrily	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 all	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 all	punct
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 all	cop
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 all	mark
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 child	det
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 thought	nsubj
15	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 all	acl:relcl
16	of	of	ADP	_	15 thought	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 all	punct
18	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 child	amod
19	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past		all vain child				angrily property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	think speech: other in a quote	past	you						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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