The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 59

‘What!’ cried he, ‘does the lovely Princess Fiordelisa deign to think of me in this amiable and encouraging way?’

Who acts: lovely Princess Fiordelisa · What happens: cry, deign, think, encourage · To what, where: King, amiable way

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lovely Princess Fiordelisa), 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 cried	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 cried	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 deign	advcl
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cried	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct
9	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 deign	aux
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Fiordelisa	det
11	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Fiordelisa	amod
12	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Fiordelisa	compound
13	Fiordelisa	Fiordelisa	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 deign	nsubj
14	deign	deign	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	to	to	PART	_	16 think	mark
16	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 deign	xcomp
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 me	case
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 think	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	24 way	case
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 way	det
21	amiable	amiable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 way	amod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 encouraging	cc
23	encouraging	encourage	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 amiable	conj
24	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 think	obl
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 deign	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 deign	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past		King			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
2	deign	present · do-support	the lovely Princess Fiordelisa				tree rules
3	think speech: other	to-infinitive	the lovely Princess Fiordelisa not said here		this amiable way	of me	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	encourage	gerund	the lovely Princess Fiordelisa not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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