The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 25

‘Alas! dear father,’ she answered, ‘they have gone away and left me all alone.’

Who acts: dear father, brothers · What happens: answer, go away, leave · To what, where: me

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dear father, brothers), 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 father	punct
2	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	5 father	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
4	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 father	amod
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 answered	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 father	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 father	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 answered	nsubj
9	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gone	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 gone	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 gone	nsubj
13	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 gone	aux
14	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 answered	parataxis
15	away	away	ADV	_	14 gone	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 left	cc
17	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 gone	conj
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 left	iobj
19	all	all	ADV	_	20 alone	advmod
20	alone	alone	ADV	_	17 left	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	dear father			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go away	present · perfect	brothers = brother		away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	leave	past	brothers = brother not said here	me	alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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 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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