The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 80
‘But why should you be unhappy, my Princess?’ cried he.
Who acts: you, head · What happens: be, cry · 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, head), 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 unhappy | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 unhappy | cc |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 unhappy | advmod |
| 4 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 unhappy | aux |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 unhappy | nsubj |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 unhappy | cop |
| 7 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cried | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Princess | punct |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 Princess | nmod:poss |
| 10 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 unhappy | conj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 unhappy | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 unhappy | punct |
| 13 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 cried | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | should | you | unhappy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | head | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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