The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 47
'It is no use,' answered the prince; 'nobody can help me.
Who acts: happiness, use, nobody · What happens: be, answer, help · To what, where: use, prince, me
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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 (happiness, use, nobody), 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 use | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 use | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 use | cop |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 use | det |
| 5 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 use | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 use | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 prince | det |
| 10 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 help | punct |
| 12 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 11 ; | case |
| 13 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 15 help | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 help | aux |
| 15 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 answered | conj |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 help | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | happiness | no use | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | no use | the prince | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent prince=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | help | can | nobody | me | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/26/47/