The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 88

“Alas!” cried the Princess, “must you die?

Who acts: Princess, you · What happens: cry, die · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Princess, you), 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	_	5 cried	punct
2	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	5 cried	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Princess	det
7	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 die	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 die	punct
10	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 die	aux
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 die	nsubj
12	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 cried	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	the Princess						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	die in a quote	must	you						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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