The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 104

'Fool that I was!' cried he; 'and how much precious time have I wasted?

Who acts: Fool, I · What happens: cry, waste

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fool, I), 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	_	2 Fool	punct
2	Fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cried	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 was	nsubj
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 was	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Fool	acl:relcl
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Fool	punct
7	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Fool	punct
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cried	nsubj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 wasted	cc
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 much	advmod
14	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 time	amod
15	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 time	amod
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wasted	obl:unmarked
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 wasted	aux
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 wasted	nsubj
19	wasted	waste	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 cried	conj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Fool						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	waste	present · perfect	I				time		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: 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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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