The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 145
“Unhappy girl!” cried Ali Baba and his son, “what have you done to ruin us?”
Who acts: Unhappy girl · What happens: cry, do, ruin · To what, where: Ali, us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Forty Thieves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Unhappy girl), 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 | _ | 3 girl | punct |
| 2 | Unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 girl | amod |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 girl | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 girl | punct |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | obj |
| 8 | Baba | Baba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Ali | flat |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 son | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 son | nmod:poss |
| 11 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Ali | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 done | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 done | punct |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 have | obj |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 done | aux |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 have | nsubj |
| 17 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 cried | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 ruin | mark |
| 19 | ruin | ruin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 done | advcl |
| 20 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 ruin | obj |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 done | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Unhappy girl | Ali and Ali's son | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | present · perfect | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | ruin in a quote | to-infinitive | us | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=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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