Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Dog and the Sparrow, sentence 41

‘Alas! miserable wretch that I am!’ cried he.

Who acts: miserable wretch · What happens: cry

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Dog and the Sparrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (miserable wretch), 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 wretch	punct
2	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	4 miserable	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
4	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wretch	amod
5	wretch	wretch	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cried	nsubj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 am	obj
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 am	nsubj
8	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wretch	acl:relcl
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 wretch	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 wretch	punct
11	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 cried	nsubj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	miserable wretch						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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