English Fairy Tales, The Strange Visitor, sentence 42

“Aih-h-h!--late--wee-e-e--moul” (_pitifully_).

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Strange Visitor. 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Aih	punct
2	Aih	aih	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Aih	punct
4	h	H	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Aih	conj
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 h	punct
6	h	H	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Aih	appos
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 h	punct
8	--	--	PUNCT	_	9 late	punct
9	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Aih	parataxis
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	15 e	punct
11	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 e	amod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 wee	punct
13	e	e	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 e	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 e	punct
15	e	e	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 late	appos
16	--	--	PUNCT	_	17 moul	punct
17	moul	moul	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 e	conj
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 e	punct
19	(	(	PUNCT	_	21 pitifully	punct
20	_	_	PUNCT	_	21 pitifully	punct
21	pitifully	pitifully	ADV	_	2 Aih	conj
22	_	_	PUNCT	_	21 pitifully	punct
23	)	)	PUNCT	_	21 pitifully	punct
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Aih	punct

Pragmatics

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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