The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 185
‘Woe is me! you have burnt my skin.
Who acts: Woe · What happens: be, burnt · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Woe), 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 | _ | 8 burnt | 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 | 8 burnt | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 me | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 burnt | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 burnt | aux |
| 8 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 skin | nmod:poss |
| 10 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 burnt | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 burnt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Woe | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | burnt | present · perfect · passive | me | 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/14/185/