The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 67
‘Ah, Percinet!’ cried the Princess, ‘is it really you?
Who acts: Percinet, ‘ · What happens: cry, be · To what, where: Princess, you
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 (Percinet, ‘), 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 | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 7 cried | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | Percinet | Percinet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 Percinet | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 Percinet | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Princess | det |
| 9 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 you | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ‘ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 you | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 you | cop |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 you | nsubj |
| 14 | really | really | ADV | _ | 15 you | advmod |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 cried | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Percinet | the Princess | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | ‘ | you | 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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