The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 60

“Alas! my little monkey,” cried the Princess, “I have lost you, and yet I am no better off than I was before.”

Who acts: little monkey · What happens: cry, lose, not be, be · To what, where: Princess, you · 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 (little monkey), 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	_	9 cried	punct
2	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	6 monkey	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 monkey	nmod:poss
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 monkey	amod
6	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cried	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 monkey	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 monkey	punct
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Princess	det
11	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 cried	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 lost	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 lost	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 lost	nsubj
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 lost	aux
16	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 cried	conj
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 lost	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 better	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 better	cc
20	yet	yet	ADV	_	24 better	advmod
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 better	nsubj
22	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 better	cop
23	no	no	ADV	_	24 better	advmod
24	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 cried	conj
25	off	off	ADP	_	24 better	compound:prt
26	than	than	SCONJ	_	29 before	mark
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 before	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 before	cop
29	before	before	ADV	_	24 better	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	my little monkey	the Princess			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Topic
2	lose in a quote	present · perfect	my little monkey = monkey	you			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality
3	not is in a quote	present	my little monkey = monkey		yet	good property	tree rules
4	is in a quote	past	my little monkey = monkey			before 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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