The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 36

‘Oh, dear friends!’ he cried, wringing his hands, ‘I am only a poor shoemaker, and have nothing but this donkey left in the world.’

Who acts: dear friends, I · What happens: cry, wring, be, have, leave · To what, where: hands, poor shoemaker, nothing, donkey, world

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dear friends, 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 friends	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 friends	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 friends	amod
5	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 cried	nsubj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 friends	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 friends	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cried	nsubj
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wringing	punct
11	wringing	wring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 cried	advcl
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hands	nmod:poss
13	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 wringing	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 shoemaker	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 shoemaker	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 shoemaker	nsubj
17	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 shoemaker	cop
18	only	only	ADV	_	21 shoemaker	advmod
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 shoemaker	det
20	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 shoemaker	amod
21	shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wringing	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 have	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 have	cc
24	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 cried	conj
25	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	24 have	obj
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 donkey	cc
27	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 donkey	det
28	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 nothing	conj
29	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 donkey	acl
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 world	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 world	det
32	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 left	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	dear friends			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wring	gerund	dear friends not said here	donkey's hands		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
3	is a	present	I	a poor shoemaker		tree rules
4	have	present	dear friends not said here	nothing		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
5	leave	participle		this donkey not said here	in the world result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in world=Result

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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