The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 94

‘What bad luck!’ thought the youth.

Who acts: bad luck · What happens: luck, think · To what, where: youth

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bad luck), 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 luck	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 luck	nsubj
3	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 luck	amod
4	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thought	nsubj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 luck	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 luck	punct
7	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 youth	det
9	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thought	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	luck								tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	bad luck	the youth					vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot youth=Theme

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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