The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 118

‘Not much; but indeed I am very unhappy,’ cried Celandine, bursting into tears, ‘and if my services are any good to you--’

Who acts: I, bursting, my · What happens: be, cry, burst, service · To what, where: tears, you

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 (I, bursting, my), 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	_	3 much	punct
2	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 much	advmod
3	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 cried	ccomp
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 unhappy	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 unhappy	cc
6	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	10 unhappy	advmod
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 unhappy	nsubj
8	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 unhappy	cop
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 unhappy	advmod
10	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 much	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 much	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 much	punct
13	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	Celandine	Celandine	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 cried	flat
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bursting	punct
16	bursting	burst	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 good	csubj
17	into	into	ADP	_	18 tears	case
18	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 bursting	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 ‘	punct
20	‘	‘	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tears	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 services	cc
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 services	mark
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 services	nmod:poss
24	services	service	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 tears	conj
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 good	cop
26	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	27 good	det
27	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 cried	obl
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 you	case
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 good	obl
30	--	--	PUNCT	_	13 cried	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	I			indeed, unhappy property	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	burst	gerund			tears and ‘ and my services		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	present	bursting	you		good property	tree rules
5	service		my				nom service «act transitive»: poss=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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