The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 94
“Cruel Princess!” said the King, “would you make my life horrible to me by marrying another before my eyes?”
Who acts: Cruel Princess, you · What happens: say, make, marry · To what, where: life, another · 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 (Cruel 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 | _ | 3 Princess | punct |
| 2 | Cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Princess | amod |
| 3 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 Princess | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Princess | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 make | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 make | punct |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 make | aux |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 make | nsubj |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | conj |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 life | nmod:poss |
| 15 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 make | obj |
| 16 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 make | xcomp |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 me | case |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 horrible | obl |
| 19 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 20 marrying | mark |
| 20 | marrying | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 make | advcl |
| 21 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 marrying | obj |
| 22 | before | before | ADP | _ | 24 eyes | case |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 24 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 marrying | obl |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | Cruel Princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | make in a quote | would | you | my life | horrible property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Product | |||
| 3 | marry in a quote | gerund | you not said here | another | before my eyes | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent another=Patient |
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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