The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 110

‘Indeed no, madam,’ answered the poor Princess, ‘I am too sad to be hungry.’

Who acts: Indeed madam, I · What happens: answer, be · To what, where: poor 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 (Indeed madam, 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 madam	punct
2	Indeed	indeed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 madam	amod
3	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 madam	discourse
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 madam	punct
5	madam	madam	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 answered	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 madam	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 madam	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	11 Princess	det
10	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Princess	amod
11	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 answered	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sad	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 sad	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 sad	nsubj
15	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 sad	cop
16	too	too	ADV	_	17 sad	advmod
17	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 answered	ccomp
18	to	to	PART	_	20 hungry	mark
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 hungry	cop
20	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 sad	advcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 sad	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 sad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Indeed madam	the poor Princess		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent princess=Eventuality
2	is	present	I		sad property	tree rules
3	is	to-infinitive	I not said here		hungry property	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 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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