The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 24

‘Ah!’ she cried, ‘this is altogether beyond my comprehension, sire.

Who acts: duchess, this · What happens: cry, be

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (duchess, this), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg540:1890): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	6 cried	parataxis
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cried	nsubj
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 comprehension	punct
9	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 comprehension	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 comprehension	cop
11	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	14 comprehension	advmod
12	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	14 comprehension	case
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 comprehension	nmod:poss
14	comprehension	comprehension	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sire	punct
16	sire	sire	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 comprehension	vocative
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	duchess						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	this					beyond my comprehension; sire vocative; altogether property	tree rules

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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