The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 31

“Alas! where are now our poor children? they would make a good feast of what we have left here; but it was you, William, who had a mind to lose them: I told you we should repent of it.

Who acts: children, we, feast, William, mind, I · What happens: be, make, leave, have, lose, tell · To what, where: good feast, you, mind, children · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, we, feast, William), 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 where	punct
2	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	4 where	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 make	advmod
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 where	cop
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 are	advmod
7	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 children	nmod:poss
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 children	amod
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 now	nsubj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 where	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 make	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 make	aux
13	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 feast	det
15	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 feast	amod
16	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 make	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 what	case
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 feast	nmod
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 left	nsubj
20	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 left	aux
21	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 what	acl:relcl
22	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 left	advmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 you	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 you	cc
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 you	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 you	cop
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 make	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 William	punct
29	William	William	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 make	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 had	punct
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 had	nsubj
32	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 William	acl:relcl
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 mind	det
34	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 had	obj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 lose	mark
36	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 had	xcomp
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 lose	obj
38	:	:	PUNCT	_	40 told	punct
39	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 told	nsubj
40	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 make	parataxis
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	40 told	iobj
42	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 repent	nsubj
43	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 repent	aux
44	repent	repent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 told	ccomp
45	of	of	ADP	_	46 it	case
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 repent	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present					where property	tree rules
2	make in a quote	would	children = child	a good feast			William obl	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset feast=Product
3	leave in a quote	present · perfect	we			here		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a in a quote	past	feast	you				tree rules
5	have in a quote	past	William	a mind				tree rules
6	lose in a quote	to-infinitive	a mind not said here	children = child				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality
7	tell speech: assert in a quote	past	I		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
8	repent in a quote	should	we				of feast	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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