Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 98

That it should ever have come to this!" he sighed.

Who acts: That, man · What happens: come, sigh · To what, where: this

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Tsar and the Angel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, man), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 come	nsubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 come	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 come	advmod
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 come	aux
6	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 this	case
8	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 come	obl
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sighed	nsubj
12	sighed	sigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 come	advcl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	should · perfect	That			this	ever		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to this=Initial_Location
2	sigh in a quote	past	man						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: «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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