Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Goose-girl, sentence 14

‘Alas! alas! if thy mother knew it, Sadly, sadly, would she rue it.’

Who acts: mother, alas · What happens: know, rue · To what, where: cup

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, alas), 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	_	4 alas	punct
2	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	4 alas	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
4	alas	ala	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 rue	nsubj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 alas	punct
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 knew	mark
7	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	8 mother	nmod:poss
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 knew	nsubj
9	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 alas	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 knew	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Sadly	punct
12	Sadly	sadly	ADV	_	9 knew	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sadly	punct
14	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	12 Sadly	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 alas	punct
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 rue	aux
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 rue	nsubj
18	rue	rue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 rue	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 rue	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 rue	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know a condition, not said to happen	past	thy mother	cup				sadly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	rue	would	alas	cup					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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