Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 11
“The tooth that does not help gets no helping,” the other replied.
Who acts: tooth · What happens: not help, get, reply · To what, where: helping, other · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tooth), 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 | _ | 8 gets | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tooth | det |
| 3 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gets | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 help | nsubj |
| 5 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 help | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 help | advmod |
| 7 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tooth | acl:relcl |
| 8 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 helping | det |
| 10 | helping | helping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gets | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 gets | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 gets | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 other | det |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 replied | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 gets | parataxis |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gets | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not help in a quote | present · do-support | the tooth | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | get in a quote | present | the tooth | no helping | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | participle | the other | vn respond-113 «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: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (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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