The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 55
‘Oh, you unlucky creature!’ cried she; ‘and how do you think you are to do it.
Who acts: you, unlucky creature · What happens: creature, cry, think, be, do · To what, where: meadow, creature · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, unlucky creature), 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 creature | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 creature | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 creature | nsubj |
| 5 | unlucky | unlucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 creature | amod |
| 6 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 creature | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 creature | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cried | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 think | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 think | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 think | cc |
| 14 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 think | advmod |
| 15 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 think | aux |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 think | nsubj |
| 17 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 cried | conj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 are | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 think | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 do | mark |
| 21 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 are | xcomp |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 do | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creature | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | unlucky creature | meadow | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | present · do-support | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | does | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | you not said here | creature | 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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