The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 143
‘Alas!’ sighed the Queen, ‘since the death of the Jolly King and the loss of my Delicia, all the news in the world is not worth a pin to me.
Who acts: death, Jolly King · What happens: sigh, not be, die · To what, where: Queen, me
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (death, Jolly King), 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 | _ | 5 sighed | punct |
| 2 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 5 sighed | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Alas | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 sighed | punct |
| 5 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 worth | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Queen | det |
| 7 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sighed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sighed | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 death | punct |
| 10 | since | since | ADP | _ | 12 death | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 death | det |
| 12 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 worth | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 King | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 King | det |
| 15 | Jolly | Jolly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 King | compound |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 death | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 loss | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 loss | det |
| 19 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 King | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Delicia | case |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 Delicia | nmod:poss |
| 22 | Delicia | Delicia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 loss | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 news | punct |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 news | det:predet |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 news | det |
| 26 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 worth | nsubj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 world | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 world | det |
| 29 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 news | nmod |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 worth | cop |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 worth | advmod |
| 32 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 pin | det |
| 34 | pin | pin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 worth | obj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 me | case |
| 36 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 worth | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 worth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sigh | past | the death of the Jolly King and the loss of my Delicia not said here | the Queen | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not is | present | the death of the Jolly King and the loss of my Delicia | me | worth property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | die | the Jolly King and the loss of my Delicia | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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