The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 152

‘Now then, look alive,’ cried the false Princess.

What happens: look, cry · To what, where: false 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 look	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 then	advmod
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 look	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 then	punct
5	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 cried	parataxis
6	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 look	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 look	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 look	punct
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Princess	det
11	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Princess	amod
12	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 cried	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	infinitive					then	alive property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	cry speech: express	past		the false Princess					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Topic

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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