The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 97

‘Alas, good mother,’ answered the Queen, ‘I am unhappy because I have no children.’

Who acts: good mother, I · What happens: answer, be, have · To what, where: Queen, children · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, 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 (good mother, 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	_	5 mother	punct
2	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	4 good	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mother	amod
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 answered	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mother	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 mother	punct
8	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Queen	det
10	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 answered	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 unhappy	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 unhappy	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 unhappy	nsubj
14	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 unhappy	cop
15	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 answered	ccomp
16	because	because	SCONJ	_	18 have	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 have	nsubj
18	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 unhappy	advcl
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 children	det
20	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 have	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 unhappy	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 unhappy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	good mother		the Queen		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent queen=Eventuality
2	is	present	I			unhappy property	tree rules
3	have	present	I	no children			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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