The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 133

‘But what a pity to drown such a pretty Princess!’

What happens: drown · To what, where: pretty Princess

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 pity	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 pity	cc
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 pity	nsubj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pity	det
5	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 drown	mark
7	drown	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 pity	acl
8	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	11 Princess	det:predet
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 Princess	det
10	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Princess	amod
11	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drown	obj
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 pity	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 pity	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	to-infinitive		such pretty Princess					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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