English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 44
“Alas!” quoth the prince, “what shall we do there?
Who acts: we · What happens: quoth, do · To what, where: prince
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack the Giant-killer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | _ | 5 quoth | punct |
| 2 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 5 quoth | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Alas | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Alas | punct |
| 5 | quoth | quoth | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prince | det |
| 7 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 quoth | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 do | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 do | punct |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 do | obj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 do | aux |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 do | nsubj |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 quoth | conj |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 do | advmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 quoth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quoth | present | the prince | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | shall | we | there | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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