The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 57
‘Ah! you poor thing, there you are to be sure!
Who acts: you · What happens: be
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 (you), 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 | _ | 6 thing | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 6 thing | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 thing | nsubj |
| 5 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 thing | amod |
| 6 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 are | punct |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 are | expl |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 are | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 thing | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 sure | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 sure | cop |
| 13 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 are | advcl |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | you | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | you not said here | sure 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 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.
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