The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 180

‘Oh, what a misfortune!’ cried the host, wringing his hands.

Who acts: misfortune · What happens: misfortune, cry, wring · To what, where: host, hands

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (misfortune), 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	_	6 misfortune	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 misfortune	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 misfortune	nsubj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 misfortune	det
6	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cried	nsubj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 misfortune	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 misfortune	punct
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 host	det
11	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cried	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wringing	punct
13	wringing	wring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 cried	advcl
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 hands	nmod:poss
15	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 wringing	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	misfortune				tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	a misfortune	the host	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent host=Topic
3	wring	gerund	a misfortune not said here	misfortune's hands	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient

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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