The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 79
‘Oh, you unlucky being!’ sighed she.
Who acts: unlucky · What happens: sigh · To what, where: calf
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 (unlucky), 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 unlucky | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 unlucky | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 unlucky | nsubj |
| 5 | unlucky | unlucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sighed | nsubj |
| 6 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 unlucky | advcl |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 unlucky | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 unlucky | punct |
| 9 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sighed | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sighed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sigh | past | unlucky | calf | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
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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