The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 92
‘Alas! madam,’ said Celandine, with tears in her pretty eyes, ‘a sad fate forces me to ask you for shelter.’
Who acts: madam · What happens: say, ask · To what, where: you · 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 (madam), 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 | _ | 4 madam | punct |
| 2 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 4 madam | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Alas | punct |
| 4 | madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 madam | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 madam | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Celandine | Celandine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 tears | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 tears | case |
| 11 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 said | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 eyes | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 eyes | amod |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 tears | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 forces | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 forces | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 forces | det |
| 19 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 forces | amod |
| 20 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 forces | compound |
| 21 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 eyes | conj |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 forces | nmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 ask | mark |
| 24 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 ask | iobj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 shelter | case |
| 27 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ask | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | madam | with tears in madam's pretty eyes and a sad fate forces me | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | you | for shelter | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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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