The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 95

But a curse on the cruel mother That burnt my golden shell!’

Who acts: curse · What happens: burnt · To what, where: golden shell

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (curse), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 burnt	cc
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 curse	det
3	curse	curse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 burnt	nsubj
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 mother	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mother	det
6	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mother	amod
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 curse	nmod
8	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 burnt	nsubj
9	burnt	burnt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 shell	nmod:poss
11	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 shell	amod
12	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 burnt	obj
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 burnt	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 burnt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burnt	past	a curse on the cruel mother	my golden shell					tree rules

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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