The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 47
‘Ah! cruel Queen! what have I ever done to be imprisoned like this?
Who acts: cruel Queen · What happens: do, imprison
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cruel Queen), 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 Queen | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 Queen | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Queen | amod |
| 5 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 done | nsubj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 Queen | punct |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 done | obj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 done | aux |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 done | nsubj |
| 10 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 11 done | advmod |
| 11 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 imprisoned | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 imprisoned | aux:pass |
| 14 | imprisoned | imprison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 done | advcl |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 this | case |
| 16 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 imprisoned | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present · perfect | cruel Queen | ever | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | imprison | to-infinitive · passive | cruel Queen not said here | like this | vn confine-92 «NP V NP» |
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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