The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 37
‘But what can I have to eat?’ cried Prince Vivien sharply.
Who acts: I · What happens: have, eat, cry · To what, where: Vivien · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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 (I), 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 | _ | 6 have | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 have | cc |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 have | obj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 have | aux |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 have | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 cried | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 eat | mark |
| 8 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 have | xcomp |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Vivien | nmod:desc |
| 13 | Vivien | Vivien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | obj |
| 14 | sharply | sharply | ADV | _ | 11 cried | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | can | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | eat | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | Vivien Prince | sharply property | 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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