The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 84
‘Madam,’ cried the Prince, flinging himself down at her feet, ‘only look at my ugliness.
Who acts: Madam · What happens: cry, fling down, look · To what, where: Prince, feet
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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 (Madam), 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 | _ | 2 Madam | punct |
| 2 | Madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Madam | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Madam | punct |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Prince | det |
| 7 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 flinging | punct |
| 9 | flinging | fling | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 cried | advcl |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 flinging | obj |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 flinging | compound:prt |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 feet | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 feet | nmod:poss |
| 14 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 flinging | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 look | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 look | punct |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 look | advmod |
| 18 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 cried | conj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 ugliness | case |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 ugliness | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ugliness | ugliness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 look | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Madam | the Prince | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Topic | ||||
| 2 | fling down | gerund | Madam not said here | prince | Madam's feet | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme at foot=Destination | |||
| 3 | look | infinitive | Madam not said here | at my ugliness | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at ugliness=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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