The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 96
“Oh, don’t be angry with me,” cried the Princess, clasping her hands.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: do, not be, cry, clasp · To what, where: hands · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, 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 (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 | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 do | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 cried | parataxis |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 angry | advmod |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 angry | cop |
| 7 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 do | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 me | case |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 angry | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Princess | det |
| 14 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 cried | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 clasping | punct |
| 16 | clasping | clasp | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 cried | advcl |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hands | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 clasping | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | infinitive | with the Princess = princess; angry property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | the Princess | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | clasp | gerund | the Princess not said here | Princess's hands | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
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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