The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 12

‘Ah! that insolent Princess!’ cried the Queen.

Who acts: insolent Princess · What happens: cry

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (insolent Princess), 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	_	9 cried	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	9 cried	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 Princess	punct
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 Princess	det
5	insolent	insolent	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Princess	compound
6	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cried	nsubj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 Princess	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 Princess	punct
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Queen	det
11	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 cried	nsubj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	that insolent Princess						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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