The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 52

‘Ah, Charming!’ she said, ‘what have I ever done that you should forsake me and marry Turritella?

Who acts: Charming, I, you · What happens: say, done, forsake, marry · To what, where: me, Turritella · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Charming, I, you), 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	_	4 Charming	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	4 Charming	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	Charming	Charming	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 Charming	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 Charming	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 done	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 done	punct
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 done	obj
12	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 done	aux
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 done	nsubj
14	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	15 done	advmod
15	done	done	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 forsake	mark
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 forsake	nsubj
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 forsake	aux
19	forsake	forsake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 done	advcl
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 forsake	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 marry	cc
22	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 forsake	conj
23	Turritella	Turritella	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 marry	obj
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Charming			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	done	present	I		ever	tree rules
3	forsake	should	you	me		tree rules
4	marry	infinitive	you not said here	Turritella		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turritella=Patient

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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