The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 41
‘What an unhappy creature I am,’ she cried, ‘to be shut up in this dismal tower as if I had committed some crime!
Who acts: ambassador, I · What happens: be, cry, shut up, commit · To what, where: unhappy creature, dismal tower, crime
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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 (ambassador, 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 creature | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 creature | nsubj |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 creature | det |
| 4 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 creature | amod |
| 5 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | parataxis |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 am | nsubj |
| 7 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 creature | cop |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 creature | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 creature | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 cried | nsubj |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 shut | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 shut | punct |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 shut | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 shut | aux:pass |
| 16 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 cried | conj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 shut | compound:prt |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 tower | case |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 tower | det |
| 20 | dismal | dismal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 tower | amod |
| 21 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shut | obl |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 committed | mark |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 committed | mark |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 committed | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 committed | aux |
| 26 | committed | commit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 shut | advcl |
| 27 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 crime | det |
| 28 | crime | crime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 committed | obj |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a unhappy creature | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | ambassador | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | shut up | to-infinitive · passive | ambassador not said here | this dismal tower | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 4 | commit | past · perfect | I | some crime | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crime=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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