English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 37

But, oh dear! there is worse to come yet.

What happens: be, come

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box. 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.

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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 dear	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dear	punct
3	oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 dear	discourse
4	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 is	punct
6	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 is	expl
7	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dear	conj
8	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 is	xcomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 come	mark
10	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 worse	xcomp
11	yet	yet	ADV	_	10 come	advmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present				there		bad property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	to-infinitive					yet		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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