The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 30

‘What! all alone, and without any means of existence?’ cried the kind-hearted old Fairy.

What happens: mean, cry · To what, where: hearted old Fairy

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: 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	_	2 What	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 cried	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 alone	advmod
5	alone	alone	ADV	_	2 What	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 means	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 means	cc
8	without	without	ADP	_	9 any	case
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 means	obl
10	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 What	acl:relcl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 existence	case
12	existence	existence	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 means	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct
15	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Fairy	det
17	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hearted	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 kind	punct
19	hearted	hearted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Fairy	amod
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Fairy	amod
21	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cried	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present						without any; of existence	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	cry speech: express	past		the hearted old Fairy					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairy=Topic

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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