The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 103

‘What!’ cried the Princess, ‘do you think I am come to beg of you?’

Who acts: you, I · What happens: cry, think, come, beg · To what, where: Princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 cried	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 cried	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Princess	det
7	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 think	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 think	punct
10	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 think	aux
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 think	nsubj
12	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 cried	conj
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 come	nsubj
14	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 come	aux
15	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 think	ccomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 beg	mark
17	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 come	xcomp
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 you	case
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 beg	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past		the Princess		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Topic
2	think speech: other	present · do-support	you			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	come	present	I			tree rules
4	beg speech: request	to-infinitive	I not said here		of you	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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