The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 3, sentence 10

‘Ah, heaven be praised!’ she cried, ‘I have not seen a Christian man since I came here.’

Who acts: Princess, I · What happens: praise, cry, not see, come · To what, where: heaven, Christian man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, 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	_	6 praised	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	6 praised	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 praised	nsubj:pass
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 praised	aux:pass
6	praised	praise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 cried	advcl
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 praised	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 praised	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cried	nsubj
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 seen	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 seen	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 seen	nsubj
14	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 seen	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 seen	advmod
16	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 cried	ccomp
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 man	det
18	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 man	amod
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seen	obj
20	since	since	SCONJ	_	22 came	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 came	nsubj
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 seen	advcl
23	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 came	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	praise	infinitive · passive		heaven		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past	Princess			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not see	present · perfect	I	a Christian man		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
4	come	past	I		here	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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