The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 60
Often enough in life help comes to us from the most unexpected quarter.”
Who acts: enough life help · What happens: come · To what, where: us, unexpected quarter
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (enough life help), 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 | Often | often | ADV | _ | 2 enough | advmod |
| 2 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 help | amod |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 life | case |
| 4 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 help | compound |
| 5 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 comes | nsubj |
| 6 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 us | case |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 comes | obl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 quarter | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 quarter | det |
| 11 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 12 unexpected | advmod |
| 12 | unexpected | unexpected | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 quarter | amod |
| 13 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 comes | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 comes | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | enough life help | us | the unexpected quarter | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to we=Initial_Location from quarter=Destination |
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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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