The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 61
“Ah!” cried the young Princess, “how unlucky I am to miss the sight of so many pretty things!
Who acts: young Princess · What happens: cry, be, miss, sight · To what, where: sight, many pretty things · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young 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 cried | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 cried | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Princess | det |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Princess | amod |
| 8 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 unlucky | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 unlucky | punct |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 unlucky | advmod |
| 12 | unlucky | unlucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cried | parataxis |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 am | nsubj |
| 14 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 unlucky | cop |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 miss | mark |
| 16 | miss | miss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 am | xcomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sight | det |
| 18 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 miss | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 things | case |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 many | advmod |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 things | amod |
| 22 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 things | amod |
| 23 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 sight | nmod |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | the young Princess | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | unlucky property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | miss in a quote | to-infinitive | the sight of many pretty things | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | sight in a quote | many pretty things | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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