The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 48

And was I not unhappy enough before, that you must needs come and taunt me with the happiness your daughter is enjoying now she is King Charming’s bride?’

Who acts: I, you, daughter · What happens: not be, need, come, taunt, enjoy, be · To what, where: me, happiness, bride

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 (I, you, daughter), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 unhappy	cc
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 unhappy	cop
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 unhappy	nsubj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 unhappy	advmod
5	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	enough	enough	ADV	_	7 before	advmod
7	before	before	ADV	_	5 unhappy	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 needs	punct
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 needs	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 needs	nsubj
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 needs	aux
12	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 unhappy	conj
13	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 needs	xcomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 taunt	cc
15	taunt	taunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 come	conj
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 taunt	obj
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 happiness	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 happiness	det
19	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 taunt	obl
20	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 daughter	nmod:poss
21	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 enjoying	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 enjoying	aux
23	enjoying	enjoy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 happiness	acl:relcl
24	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 bride	advmod
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 bride	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 bride	cop
27	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Charming	nmod:desc
28	Charming	Charming	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 bride	nmod:poss
29	’s	's	PART	_	28 Charming	case
30	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 taunt	obl
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 unhappy	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 unhappy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	I			before, unhappy property	tree rules
2	need	must	you				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	come not said to happen	infinitive	you not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	taunt	infinitive	you not said here	me		with the happiness	vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
5	enjoy	present · progressive	your daughter	the happiness not said here			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer happiness=Stimulus
6	is a	present	daughter	Charming King's bride	now		tree rules

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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