The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 90

“Ou, miou! how cold we are!”

Who acts: Ou · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ou), 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 Ou	punct
2	Ou	Ou	X	Foreign=Yes	7 cold	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 miou	punct
4	miou	miou	X	Foreign=Yes	2 Ou	flat:foreign
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ou	punct
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 cold	advmod
7	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 cold	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 cold	cop
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 cold	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 cold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Ou					cold property	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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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