The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 32
“How can I help weeping at the task set me by the king.
Who acts: wood pigeon, task · What happens: help, weep, set · To what, where: wood pigeon
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wood pigeon, task), 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 help | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 help | advmod |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 help | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 help | nsubj |
| 5 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | weeping | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 help | xcomp |
| 7 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 10 set | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 task | det |
| 9 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 set | nsubj |
| 10 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 weeping | advcl |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 set | obj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 king | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 set | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help in a quote | can | the wood pigeon = pigeon | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | weep in a quote | gerund | the wood pigeon = pigeon not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | set in a quote | past | the task | the wood pigeon = pigeon | by the king | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme by king=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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