The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 85

“What!” she cried; “was I not unhappy enough in this lonely castle to which that frightful Yellow Dwarf brought me?

Who acts: Princess, frightful Yellow Dwarf · What happens: cry, not be, bring · To what, where: lonely castle, Princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, 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 (Princess, frightful Yellow Dwarf), 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	_	2 What	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cried	nsubj
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 What	acl:relcl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 unhappy	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 unhappy	punct
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 unhappy	cop
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 unhappy	nsubj
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 unhappy	advmod
12	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cried	conj
13	enough	enough	ADV	_	12 unhappy	advmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 castle	case
15	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 castle	det
16	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 castle	amod
17	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 unhappy	obl
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 which	case
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 brought	obl
20	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 Dwarf	nsubj
21	frightful	frightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Dwarf	amod
22	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Dwarf	amod
23	Dwarf	Dwarf	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 brought	nsubj
24	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 castle	acl:relcl
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 brought	obj
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Princess				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not is in a quote	past	Princess		this lonely castle	enough, unhappy property	tree rules
3	bring in a quote	past	frightful Yellow Dwarf	Princess	this lonely castle		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to which=Destination

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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