The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 75
Princess,” he cried, “do not be angry with me.
Who acts: King · What happens: cry, not be · To what, where: Princess
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, 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 (King), 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 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Princess | punct |
| 3 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Princess | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 angry | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 angry | punct |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 angry | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 angry | advmod |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 angry | cop |
| 11 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cried | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 me | case |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 angry | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | King | Princess | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not is | infinitive · do-support | King not said here | with me; angry 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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