The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 42
But, alas!
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 alas | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 alas | punct |
| 3 | alas | alas | INTJ | _ | root | root |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 alas | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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