The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 43
‘Alas!’ sighed the youth, ‘I am very sorrowful.
Who acts: I · What happens: sigh, be · To what, where: youth
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. 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 sighed | punct |
| 2 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 5 sighed | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Alas | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 sighed | punct |
| 5 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 youth | det |
| 7 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sighed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sorrowful | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 sorrowful | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 sorrowful | nsubj |
| 11 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 sorrowful | cop |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 sorrowful | advmod |
| 13 | sorrowful | sorrowful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sighed | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sighed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sigh | past | the youth | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is | present | I | sorrowful property | 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 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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