More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 95
"Alas!" said one to another, "one of us is drowned."
What happens: say, drown · To what, where: one, another · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Alas | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Alas | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 said | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 another | case |
| 8 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 one | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 one | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 one | punct |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 said | ccomp |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 us | case |
| 13 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 one | nmod |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 drowned | aux:pass |
| 15 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 one | parataxis |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | one | another | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Topic to another=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | drown in a quote | present · passive | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP» |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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