The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 143
“Oh, you poor, poor people, what a sad fate is yours!”
Who acts: poor poor people · What happens: be · To what, where: yours
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor poor people), 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 | _ | 8 people | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 poor | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 poor | nsubj |
| 5 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 people | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 poor | punct |
| 7 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 people | amod |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 yours | punct |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 yours | nsubj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 fate | det |
| 12 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fate | amod |
| 13 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 yours | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 yours | cop |
| 15 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 people | appos |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 yours | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 yours | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | poor poor people | yours | tree rules |
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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