The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 139

“Alas!” he said to himself, “I am furious with the people who are carrying Celia off, but isn’t that exactly what I did myself, and if I had not been prevented did I not intend to be still more cruel to her?”

Who acts: prince, people, that · What happens: say, be, carry off, not be, do, not prevent · To what, where: prince, Celia · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, people, that), 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 said	punct
2	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	6 said	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 himself	case
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 said	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 furious	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 furious	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 furious	nsubj
12	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 furious	cop
13	furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	parataxis
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 people	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 people	det
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 furious	obl
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 carrying	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 carrying	aux
19	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 people	acl:relcl
20	Celia	Celia	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 carrying	obj
21	off	off	ADV	_	19 carrying	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 what	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 what	cc
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 what	cop
25	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 what	advmod
26	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 what	nsubj
27	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	28 what	advmod
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 said	parataxis
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 did	nsubj
30	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 what	acl:relcl
31	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 did	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 did	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 did	cc
34	if	if	SCONJ	_	39 prevented	mark
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 prevented	nsubj
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 prevented	aux
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 prevented	advmod
38	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	39 prevented	aux:pass
39	prevented	prevent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 did	advcl
40	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
41	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 intend	nsubj
42	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 intend	advmod
43	intend	intend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 did	parataxis
44	to	to	PART	_	48 cruel	mark
45	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	48 cruel	cop
46	still	still	ADV	_	48 cruel	advmod
47	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	48 cruel	advmod
48	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 intend	advcl
49	to	to	ADP	_	50 her	case
50	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 cruel	obl
51	?	?	PUNCT	_	48 cruel	punct
52	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	prince		prince			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	present	prince				with the people; furious property	tree rules
3	carry off in a quote	present · progressive	the people	Celia			off property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent celia=Theme
4	not is a in a quote	present	that				exactly property	tree rules
5	do in a quote	past	prince	prince				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Eventuality
6	not prevent a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past · perfect · passive		prince				vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
7	do in a quote	past	prince not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	not intend in a quote	present	prince					vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
9	is in a quote	to-infinitive	prince not said here		Celia	still	cruel property	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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