The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 67
He called to the young man to help him, but the two did not succeed any better than the one had done.
Who acts: Herdsman, two, one · What happens: call, help, not succeed, do · To what, where: young man, Herdsman · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Herdsman, two, one), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 called | nsubj |
| 2 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 man | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 called | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 help | mark |
| 8 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 called | advcl |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 help | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 succeed | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 succeed | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 two | det |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 succeed | nsubj |
| 14 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 succeed | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 succeed | advmod |
| 16 | succeed | succeed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 called | advcl |
| 17 | any | any | ADV | _ | 18 better | advmod |
| 18 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 succeed | xcomp |
| 19 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 23 done | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 one | det |
| 21 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 done | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 done | aux |
| 23 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 better | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | Herdsman | the young man | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to man=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | help | to-infinitive | Herdsman not said here | Herdsman | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | not succeed | past · do-support | the two | good property | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | do | past · perfect | the one | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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: «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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