The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 77

“Alas!” said the young man, “her father is a wandering good-for-naught, who has forsaken wife and child, and gone off—who knows where?

Who acts: young man, father · What happens: say, wonder, be, forsake, go off, know · To what, where: wife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, father), 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=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 naught	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 naught	punct
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 father	nmod:poss
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 naught	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 naught	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 naught	det
15	wandering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 naught	nsubj
16	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 naught	amod
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 naught	punct
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 naught	case
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 for	punct
20	naught	naught	PRON	PronType=Neg	5 said	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 forsaken	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 forsaken	nsubj
23	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 forsaken	aux
24	forsaken	forsake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 naught	acl
25	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 forsaken	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 child	cc
27	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 wife	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 gone	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 gone	cc
30	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 said	conj
31	off	off	ADP	_	30 gone	compound:prt
32	—	-	PUNCT	_	34 knows	punct
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 knows	nsubj
34	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
35	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	34 knows	advmod
36	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	the young man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	wonder speech: ask in a quote	gerund				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is in a quote	present	maiden's father		for naught	tree rules
4	forsake in a quote	present · perfect		wife and child		tree rules
5	go off in a quote	participle	the young man not said here			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
6	know in a quote	present				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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