The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 10

'Woe is me, my father!' she sobbed. '

Who acts: Woe, Kufa · What happens: be, sob · To what, where: me

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Woe, Kufa), 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 me	punct
2	Woe	woe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 me	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 me	cop
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 sobbed	parataxis
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 father	punct
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 father	nmod:poss
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 me	conj
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 me	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 me	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sobbed	nsubj
11	sobbed	sob	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 sobbed	punct
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 sobbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Woe	me					tree rules
2	sob	past	Kufa						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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: «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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