The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 4
‘Oh, luckless being!’ sighed the girl; ‘how will you ever get through with it.
Who acts: you · What happens: sigh, get through · To what, where: girl
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 luckless | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 luckless | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | luckless | luckless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 luckless | advcl |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 luckless | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 luckless | punct |
| 8 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 luckless | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 girl | det |
| 10 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sighed | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 get | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 get | punct |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 get | advmod |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 get | aux |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 get | nsubj |
| 16 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 17 get | advmod |
| 17 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 luckless | conj |
| 18 | through | through | ADV | _ | 17 get | advmod |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 get | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 luckless | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sigh | past | the girl | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Topic | |||||
| 2 | get through | future | you | ever | with stall; through property | vn cope-83-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with it=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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