The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 93
‘Oh! what a luckless pair are we, One in a prison, and one in a tree.
Who acts: luckless pair · What happens: be · To what, where: One, prison
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (luckless pair), 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 | _ | 4 what | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 what | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pair | det |
| 6 | luckless | luckless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pair | amod |
| 7 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 One | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 One | cop |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 One | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 One | punct |
| 11 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 what | parataxis |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 prison | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 prison | det |
| 14 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 One | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 one | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 one | cc |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 One | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 tree | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 tree | det |
| 20 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 one | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a luckless pair | One | a prison | 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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