The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 61

"Alas! where are now my children, my poor children?"

What happens: be · To what, where: children

This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"]. 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 where	punct
2	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	4 where	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 where	punct
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 children	cop
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 children	advmod
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 children	nmod:poss
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 where	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 children	punct
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 children	nmod:poss
11	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 children	amod
12	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 children	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 where	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 where	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		my children and my poor children			now		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 Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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