Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength, sentence 39
*1 Help; helped.
What happens: help · To what, where: 1 Help
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XXVI. Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength. 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 | _ | 3 Help | punct |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 Help | nummod |
| 3 | Help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 helped | punct |
| 5 | helped | help | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 Help | acl |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | participle | 1 Help not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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: «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Project Gutenberg book 2306 (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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