The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 102
‘Alas, alas!’ he sighed; ‘what in the world shall I do?
Who acts: King, I · What happens: sigh, do
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, 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 | _ | 4 alas | punct |
| 2 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 4 alas | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Alas | punct |
| 4 | alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 8 sighed | discourse |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 alas | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 alas | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sighed | nsubj |
| 8 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 do | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 world | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 world | det |
| 14 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 what | obl |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 do | aux |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 do | nsubj |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sighed | ccomp |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 sighed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sigh | past | King | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do | shall | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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