The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 42

‘Alas, my poor Tiny, my sweet little pet,’ he cried, ‘but at least I can avenge thy death.’

Who acts: Giant, I, thy · What happens: cry, avenge, die · To what, where: death, least

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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 (Giant, I, thy), 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 Tiny	punct
2	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	6 Tiny	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Tiny	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 Tiny	nmod:poss
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Tiny	amod
6	Tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 cried	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 pet	punct
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 pet	nmod:poss
9	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 pet	amod
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 pet	amod
11	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Tiny	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Tiny	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 Tiny	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 cried	nsubj
15	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cried	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 avenge	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 avenge	cc
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 least	case
20	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 avenge	obl
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 avenge	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 avenge	aux
23	avenge	avenge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 cried	conj
24	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	25 death	nmod:poss
25	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 avenge	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 avenge	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	23 avenge	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Giant			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	avenge	can	I	thy death	least	tree rules
3	die		thy			nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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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