The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 55

‘Ah, Princess!’ he said, ‘how could you betray me to our cruel enemies when I loved you so dearly?’

Who acts: Charming, you, I · What happens: say, betray, love · To what, where: me, you · 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, you, 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	_	4 Princess	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	4 Princess	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 Princess	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 Princess	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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	_	14 betray	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 betray	punct
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 betray	advmod
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 betray	aux
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 betray	nsubj
14	betray	betray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 betray	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	19 enemies	case
17	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 enemies	nmod:poss
18	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 enemies	amod
19	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 betray	obl
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 loved	advmod
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 loved	nsubj
22	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 betray	advcl
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 loved	obj
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 dearly	advmod
25	dearly	dearly	ADV	_	22 loved	advmod
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Charming			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	betray	could	you	me	to our cruel enemies	tree rules
3	love	past	I	you	dearly property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

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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