The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 53

‘Now you are angry with me,’ said Graciosa in her most coaxing voice, ‘though after all I am more to be pitied than you are.’

Who acts: you, Graciosa, I · What happens: be, say, coax, pity · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Graciosa, 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	_	5 angry	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 angry	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 angry	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 angry	cop
5	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	ccomp
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 angry	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 angry	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 angry	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Graciosa	Graciosa	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
12	in	in	ADP	_	16 voice	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 voice	nmod:poss
14	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 voice	amod
15	coaxing	coax	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 voice	amod
16	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Graciosa	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 all	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 all	punct
19	though	though	ADV	_	21 all	advmod
20	after	after	ADP	_	21 all	case
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 more	det
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 more	nsubj
23	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 more	cop
24	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 said	nsubj
25	to	to	PART	_	27 pitied	mark
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 pitied	aux:pass
27	pitied	pity	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 more	advcl
28	than	than	SCONJ	_	30 are	mark
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 are	nsubj
30	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 pitied	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	you	now	with me; angry property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Graciosa in Graciosa's most coaxing voice			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	coax	gerund				vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	I		more property	tree rules
5	pity	to-infinitive · passive	I not said here			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»
6	does	present	you			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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