Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What One Can Invent, sentence 10
No doctor could help him, but perhaps the wise woman could.
Who acts: doctor · What happens: help · To what, where: world
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What One Can Invent. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doctor), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 doctor | det |
| 2 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 help | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 help | aux |
| 4 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 help | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 could | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 could | cc |
| 8 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 12 could | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 woman | det |
| 10 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 woman | amod |
| 11 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 could | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 help | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | could | no doctor | world | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |
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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