The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 71
“Alas! my daughter,” he answered, “how can I help being sad?
Who acts: daughter · What happens: answer, help, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter), 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 daughter | punct |
| 2 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 5 daughter | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Alas | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 daughter | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 daughter | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 answered | nsubj |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 help | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 help | punct |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 help | advmod |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 help | aux |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 help | nsubj |
| 15 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 answered | ccomp |
| 16 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 sad | cop |
| 17 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 help | xcomp |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: ask | past | my daughter | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | help in a quote | can | my daughter = daughter | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | gerund | my daughter = daughter not said here | sad property | 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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