The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 76

‘Happy!’ cried he; ‘say rather unhappy.

Who acts: Fanfaronade · What happens: cry, say · To what, where: unhappy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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 (Fanfaronade), 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 Happy	punct
2	Happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cried	parataxis
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Happy	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Happy	punct
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cried	nsubj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 say	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 say	punct
9	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 cried	conj
10	rather	rather	ADV	_	11 unhappy	advmod
11	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 say	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Fanfaronade						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	Fanfaronade not said here	unhappy					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent unhappy=Topic

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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