The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 48
Oh, my poor friends, I am the most miserable creature in the world!
Who acts: I · What happens: be · To what, where: miserable creature, world
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 12 creature | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 friends | nmod:poss |
| 4 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 friends | amod |
| 5 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Oh | iobj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 creature | nsubj |
| 8 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 creature | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 creature | det |
| 10 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 11 miserable | advmod |
| 11 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 creature | amod |
| 12 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 world | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 world | det |
| 15 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 creature | nmod |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 creature | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | the miserable creature | the world | 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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