The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 43
‘Alas, little creature! what are you coming to look for here?
Who acts: Alas · What happens: come, look
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 (Alas), 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 | _ | 2 Alas | punct |
| 2 | Alas | Alas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 coming | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 creature | punct |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 creature | amod |
| 5 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Alas | appos |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 creature | punct |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 coming | obj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 coming | aux |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 coming | nsubj |
| 10 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 look | mark |
| 12 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 coming | advcl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 here | case |
| 14 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 look | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 coming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present · progressive | Alas | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=Theme | |||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | Alas not said here | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for here=Theme |
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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