The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 97

‘Alas I dear little mother, I have lost my gold slippers!’

Who acts: I · What happens: lose · To what, where: gold slippers

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 (I), 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 mother	punct
2	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	6 mother	discourse
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 mother	nsubj
4	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mother	amod
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mother	amod
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lost	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 lost	nsubj
9	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 lost	aux
10	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 mother	acl:relcl
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 slippers	nmod:poss
12	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 slippers	compound
13	slippers	slipper	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 lost	obj
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 mother	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 mother	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present · perfect	I	my gold slippers					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slipper=Eventuality

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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