The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 79
‘Good heavens!’ cried he, ‘some great misfortune has befallen my brother.
Who acts: Good heavens · What happens: cry, befall · To what, where: Meantime, great misfortune
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Good heavens), 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 | _ | 6 cried | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 heavens | amod |
| 3 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 heavens | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 heavens | punct |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cried | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 befallen | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 befallen | punct |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 misfortune | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 misfortune | amod |
| 12 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 befallen | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 befallen | aux |
| 14 | befallen | befall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 cried | conj |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 brother | nmod:poss |
| 16 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 befallen | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Good heavens | Meantime | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | ||||
| 2 | befall | present · perfect · passive | some great misfortune | 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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