The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 63
“Am I not unlucky?” cried the poor Princess; “I lose everything I love, and am none the better for it.”
Who acts: poor Princess · What happens: not be, cry, lose, love · To what, where: everything · 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 (poor Princess), 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 unlucky | punct |
| 2 | Am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 unlucky | cop |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 unlucky | nsubj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 unlucky | advmod |
| 5 | unlucky | unlucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cried | parataxis |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 unlucky | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 unlucky | punct |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Princess | det |
| 10 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Princess | amod |
| 11 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 lose | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 lose | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 lose | nsubj |
| 15 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 cried | parataxis |
| 16 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 15 lose | obj |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 love | nsubj |
| 18 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 everything | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 am | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 am | cc |
| 21 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 better | advcl |
| 22 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 21 am | obj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 better | det |
| 24 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 lose | advcl |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 better | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | the poor Princess = princess | unlucky property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the poor Princess | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | lose in a quote | present | the poor Princess = princess | everything | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | love in a quote | present | the poor Princess = princess | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
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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