The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 27

‘Alas! madam,’ cried the Princess, ‘is it impossible to be at once wise and beautiful?’

Who acts: madam, ‘ · What happens: cry, be · To what, where: Princess

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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 (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	_	4 madam	punct
2	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	4 madam	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
4	madam	madam	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 madam	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 madam	punct
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Princess	det
9	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 impossible	punct
11	‘	‘	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 impossible	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 impossible	cop
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 impossible	expl
14	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cried	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	19 wise	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 wise	cop
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 wise	case
18	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	19 wise	advmod
19	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 impossible	advcl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 beautiful	cc
21	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 wise	conj
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 impossible	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	madam	the Princess		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Topic
2	is	present	‘		impossible property	tree rules
3	is	to-infinitive	‘ not said here		once, wise property	tree rules
4	be		‘ not said here			tree rules

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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