The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 13
What shall we do?’ cried the King and Queen in one breath.
Who acts: we · What happens: do, cry · To what, where: King, one breath
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 do | obj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Queen | cc |
| 11 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 King | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 breath | case |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 breath | nummod |
| 14 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | shall | we | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | we not said here | the King and Queen | one breath | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=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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