Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 65
But alas! how woefully he was undone! what crosses and sorrows happen to us all in this world!
What happens: undo, happen · To what, where: alas, us, world
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 alas | cc |
| 2 | alas | ala | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 undone | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 alas | punct |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 woefully | advmod |
| 5 | woefully | woefully | ADV | _ | 8 undone | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 undone | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 undone | aux:pass |
| 8 | undone | undo | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 undone | punct |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 happen | nsubj |
| 11 | crosses | cross | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 happen | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sorrows | cc |
| 13 | sorrows | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 crosses | conj |
| 14 | happen | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 undone | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 us | case |
| 16 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 happen | obl |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 us | nmod:unmarked |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 world | case |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 world | det |
| 20 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 happen | obl |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 undone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | undo | past · passive | alas | woefully property | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | happen | present | us | this world | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in world=Location |
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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