The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 76
‘Ah!’ cried the Queen, ‘can nothing appease this enemy of ours?
Who acts: nothing · What happens: cry, appease · To what, where: Queen, enemy
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 (nothing), 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 cried | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 cried | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Queen | det |
| 7 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 appease | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 appease | punct |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 appease | aux |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 appease | nsubj |
| 12 | appease | appease | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 cried | conj |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 enemy | det |
| 14 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 appease | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 ours | case |
| 16 | ours | our | PRON | Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 enemy | nmod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | the Queen | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Topic | |||||
| 2 | appease | can | nothing | this enemy of ours | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus enemy=Experiencer |
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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