The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 3, sentence 6

“Oh! my dear daughter,” he cried, kissing her, “can you ever forget my cruelty?

Who acts: dear daughter, you · What happens: cry, kiss, forget · To what, where: daughter, cruelty · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dear daughter, 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	_	6 daughter	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 daughter	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 daughter	nmod:poss
5	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 daughter	amod
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cried	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 daughter	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 daughter	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cried	nsubj
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 kissing	punct
12	kissing	kiss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 cried	advcl
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 kissing	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 forget	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 forget	punct
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 forget	aux
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 forget	nsubj
18	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	19 forget	advmod
19	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 cried	conj
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 cruelty	nmod:poss
21	cruelty	cruelty	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 forget	obj
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	my dear daughter			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	kiss	gerund	my dear daughter not said here	daughter		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent
3	forget in a quote	can	you	my cruelty	ever	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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