English Fairy Tales, The Cauld Lad of Hilton, sentence 7

Ah, me! what's the world a-coming to?

What happens: be, come · To what, where: world

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Cauld Lad of Hilton. 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	8 world	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Ah	iobj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 world	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 world	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 world	det
8	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 coming	det
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 a	punct
11	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 world	nmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	11 coming	fixed
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 world	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the world					tree rules
2	come	gerund							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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