The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 103
‘Alas, what an unhappy creature I am!’ sobbed the Princess.
What happens: sob · To what, where: Princess
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 what | punct |
| 2 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 4 what | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Alas | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 sobbed | nsubj:outer |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 creature | det |
| 6 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 creature | amod |
| 7 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 what | nsubj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 am | nsubj |
| 9 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 creature | acl:relcl |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 what | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 what | punct |
| 12 | sobbed | sob | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Princess | det |
| 14 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 sobbed | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 sobbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sob | past | the Princess | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=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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