The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 192
‘Oh, but what I have is so little,’ whimpered the old woman.
Who acts: I · What happens: have, be, whimper · To what, where: old woman
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 (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 | _ | 5 what | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 what | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 what | cc |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 whimpered | obj |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 have | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | acl:relcl |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 little | cop |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 little | advmod |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 what | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 what | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 whimpered | punct |
| 13 | whimpered | whimper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 woman | det |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 woman | amod |
| 16 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 whimpered | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 whimpered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | little property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | whimper | past | the old woman | tree rules |
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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