The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 40

‘Oh, woe is me!’ wailed the ogress.

Who acts: me · What happens: be, wail · To what, where: me, ogress

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Halfman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (me), 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	_	9 wailed	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 woe	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	woe	woe	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 me	appos
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 me	cop
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 wailed	nsubj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 me	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 me	punct
9	wailed	wail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ogress	det
11	ogress	ogress	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wailed	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 wailed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		me					tree rules
2	wail	past	me	the ogress					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ogress=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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