The Red Fairy Book, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, sentence 33

‘My mother! oh, madam, what ought I to do?

Who acts: I · What happens: do · To what, where: madam

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk. 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	_	3 mother	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mother	nmod:poss
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 madam	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 mother	punct
5	oh	oh	INTJ	_	7 madam	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 madam	punct
7	madam	madam	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 do	punct
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 do	obj
10	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 do	aux
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 do	nsubj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 do	mark
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 madam	acl:relcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 madam	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	ought	I	madam					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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