The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 87
“I am the unhappiest princess in the world, and I am seeking a shelter against my father’s anger.”
Who acts: thousand misfortunes, father · What happens: be, seek, anger · To what, where: unhappiest princess, world, shelter, anger
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 (thousand misfortunes, father), 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 princess | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 princess | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 princess | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 princess | det |
| 5 | unhappiest | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 princess | amod |
| 6 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 world | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 world | det |
| 9 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 princess | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seeking | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 seeking | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 seeking | nsubj |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 seeking | aux |
| 14 | seeking | seek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 princess | acl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 shelter | det |
| 16 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seeking | obj |
| 17 | against | against | ADP | _ | 21 anger | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 father | nmod:poss |
| 19 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 anger | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 father | case |
| 21 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seeking | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 princess | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 princess | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | a thousand misfortunes and Sir Sheep = misfortune | the unhappiest princess | the world | tree rules | |||
| 2 | seek in a quote | present · progressive | a thousand misfortunes and Sir Sheep = misfortune | a shelter | my father's anger | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent shelter=Theme against anger=Location | |||
| 3 | anger in a quote | my father | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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