The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 38
‘Alas!’ he cried; ‘shall I never see my lovely Princess again?’
Who acts: most, I · What happens: cry, not see · To what, where: lovely Princess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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 (most, 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 | _ | 2 Alas | punct |
| 2 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 6 cried | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Alas | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Alas | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cried | nsubj |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
| 9 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 see | aux |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 see | nsubj |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 see | advmod |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 cried | ccomp |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 Princess | nmod:poss |
| 14 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Princess | amod |
| 15 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 see | obj |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 see | advmod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | most | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not see | shall | I | my lovely Princess | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus |
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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