The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 229

‘Oh no!’ cried Rosette, ‘he must be wicked, since he tried to drown me.

Who acts: Frisk · What happens: cry, be, try, drown · To what, where: Rosette, me

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: who acts (Frisk), 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	_	6 cried	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 cried	discourse
3	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	2 Oh	discourse
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Rosette	Rosette	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 cried	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wicked	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 wicked	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 wicked	nsubj
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 wicked	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 wicked	cop
13	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cried	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 tried	punct
15	since	since	SCONJ	_	17 tried	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 tried	nsubj
17	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 wicked	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 drown	mark
19	drown	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 tried	xcomp
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 drown	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past		Rosette		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rosette=Topic
2	is	must	Frisk		wicked property	tree rules
3	try	past	Frisk			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	drown not said to happen	to-infinitive	Frisk not said here	me		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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