The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 87

‘Oh! oh!’ cried the old hag, ‘what has become of my eye?’

What happens: cry, become · To what, where: old hag

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	_	7 cried	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	7 cried	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	oh	oh	INTJ	_	2 Oh	discourse
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hag	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hag	amod
10	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 become	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 become	punct
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 become	nsubj
14	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 become	aux
15	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 cried	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 eye	case
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 eye	nmod:poss
18	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 become	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past		the old hag					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hag=Topic
2	become	present · perfect						of my eye	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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