The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 146

‘You poor child!’ said the prince and princess, and they praised the crows, and said that they were not angry with them, but that they must not do it again.

Who acts: You, poor child, prince · What happens: child, say, praise, not be, not do · To what, where: prince, crows, child · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, poor child, prince), 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 child	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 child	nsubj
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 child	amod
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 child	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 child	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 prince	det
9	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 princess	cc
11	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 prince	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 praised	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 praised	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 praised	nsubj
15	praised	praise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 crows	det
17	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 praised	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 praised	advcl
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 angry	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 angry	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 angry	cop
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 angry	advmod
25	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 said	ccomp
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 them	case
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 angry	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 do	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 do	cc
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 do	mark
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 do	nsubj
32	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 do	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 do	advmod
34	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 praised	advcl
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 do	obj
36	again	again	ADV	_	34 do	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	child		You				tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	poor child	the prince and princess			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prince=Topic
3	praise	past	prince	the crows			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crow=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	prince not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	not is	past	prince			with lilies = lily; angry property	tree rules
6	not do	must	prince	child	again		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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