The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 38
‘Unhappy woman,’ said he, ‘you have separated us for ever!
Who acts: Unhappy woman, husband · What happens: say, separate · To what, where: us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Unhappy woman, husband), 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 | _ | 3 woman | punct |
| 2 | Unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 woman | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 woman | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 separated | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 separated | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 separated | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 separated | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 separated | aux |
| 12 | separated | separate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 said | ccomp |
| 13 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 separated | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 ever | case |
| 15 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 12 separated | obl |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Unhappy woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | separate | present · perfect | husband | us | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient |
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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