The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 173
‘Oh! what a poor helpless old creature!’ said another, who felt sorry for her.
Who acts: another · What happens: say, feel · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (another), 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 | _ | 4 what | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 what | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 said | nsubj:outer |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 creature | det |
| 6 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 creature | amod |
| 7 | helpless | helpless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 creature | amod |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 creature | amod |
| 9 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 what | nsubj |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 what | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 what | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | another | another | PRON | PronType=Ind | 16 felt | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 felt | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 felt | nsubj |
| 16 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 17 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 felt | xcomp |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 her | case |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 felt | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | feel | past | another | for creature; sorry property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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