The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 60
‘Woe be to me!’ cried Petru, frightened at last.
Who acts: Woe · What happens: be, cry, frighten · To what, where: last
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, 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 (Woe), 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 | 8 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 me | cop |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Woe | appos |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 me | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Woe | punct |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Petru | Petru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 frightened | punct |
| 11 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 cried | conj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 last | case |
| 13 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 frightened | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | to me | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Woe | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | frighten | participle | Woe not said here | last | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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