Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Straw Ox, sentence 16

Alas! old fool that I am!" cried she, "perchance it has gone home."

Who acts: old fool, perchance · What happens: cry, go · To what, where: woman

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Straw Ox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old fool, perchance), 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	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	4 fool	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Alas	punct
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fool	amod
4	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cried	nsubj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 am	obj
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 am	nsubj
7	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fool	acl:relcl
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 fool	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 fool	punct
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cried	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 gone	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 perchance	punct
14	perchance	perchance	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gone	nsubj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 gone	nsubj
16	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 gone	aux
17	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 cried	conj
18	home	home	ADV	_	17 gone	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express in a quote	past	old fool	woman					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic
2	go	present · perfect	perchance					home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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