The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 119

‘Alas! both my brothers are dead.’

Who acts: brothers · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers), 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	_	8 dead	punct
2	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	4 both	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
4	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	6 brothers	det:predet
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 brothers	nmod:poss
6	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 dead	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 dead	cop
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 dead	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 dead	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	my brothers					dead property	tree rules

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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