The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 188

‘Don’t drink!’ suddenly cried out the little Princess; ‘I would rather marry a gardener.’

Who acts: you, I · What happens: not drink, cry out, marry · To what, where: little Princess, gardener

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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	_	4 drink	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 drink	aux
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 drink	advmod
4	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 drink	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 drink	punct
7	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	8 cried	advmod
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 drink	advcl
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 cried	compound:prt
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Princess	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Princess	amod
12	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cried	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 marry	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 marry	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 marry	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 marry	aux
17	rather	rather	ADV	_	18 marry	advmod
18	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 drink	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 gardener	det
20	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 marry	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 drink	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 drink	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not drink	imperative · do-support	you not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cry out speech: express	past	you not said here	the little Princess	suddenly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Topic
3	marry	would	I	a gardener		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gardener=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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