The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 85

"Alas! poor babies, whither are ye come?

Who acts: ye · What happens: be

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: who acts (ye), 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 babies	punct
2	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	5 babies	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 babies	amod
5	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 come	punct
7	whither	whither	ADV	PronType=Int	10 come	advmod
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 come	cop
9	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	10 come	nsubj
10	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 babies	acl:relcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 babies	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	ye					come, whither property	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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