Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 16
"But they must be helped on by others," said the father.
Who acts: others, father · What happens: help on, say · To what, where: abilities · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others, father), 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 | _ | 6 helped | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 helped | cc |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 helped | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 helped | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 helped | aux:pass |
| 6 | helped | help | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 said | ccomp |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 helped | compound:prt |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 others | case |
| 9 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 helped | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 helped | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 helped | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 father | det |
| 14 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help on in a quote | must · passive | others | abilities = ability | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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