Grimms' Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel, sentence 36
‘Alas!’ he said, ‘what will become of me?’
Who acts: spell · What happens: say, become · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Jorinda and Jorindel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spell), 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 6 said | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Alas | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Alas | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 become | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 become | punct |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 become | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 become | aux |
| 11 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 me | case |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 become | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 become | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 become | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | spell | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | become | future | of me | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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