The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 80
Dear me, to think that you have sacrificed your young ones for nothing!
Who acts: you · What happens: think, sacrifice · To what, where: young ones · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Dear | iobj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 think | mark |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Dear | parataxis |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 sacrificed | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 sacrificed | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sacrificed | aux |
| 9 | sacrificed | sacrifice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 think | ccomp |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 ones | nmod:poss |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ones | amod |
| 12 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sacrificed | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 nothing | case |
| 14 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 sacrificed | obl |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | sacrifice | present · perfect | you | your young ones | for nothing | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
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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