The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 152
‘Woe be to us, mother,’ said the dragon; ‘this man will soon get us into his power.
Who acts: Woe, man · What happens: be, say, get · To what, where: dragon, us, power · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Woe, man), 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 | _ | 2 Woe | punct |
| 2 | Woe | woe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 us | cop |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 us | case |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Woe | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mother | punct |
| 7 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Woe | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Woe | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Woe | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dragon | det |
| 12 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 get | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 get | punct |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 man | det |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 get | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 get | aux |
| 18 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 get | advmod |
| 19 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | conj |
| 20 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 get | iobj |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 power | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 power | nmod:poss |
| 23 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 get | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | to us | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Woe and mother | the dragon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dragon=Topic | ||||
| 3 | get | future | this man | us | man's power | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer we=Stimulus |
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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