The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 10
'Never mind that; do not lose a chance of helping others,' answered the horse.
Who acts: you, chance · What happens: not mind, not lose, help, answer · To what, where: that, chance, others, horse
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, chance), 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 | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 2 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 mind | advmod |
| 3 | mind | mind | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 mind | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 lose | punct |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 lose | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 lose | advmod |
| 8 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 mind | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 chance | det |
| 10 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lose | obj |
| 11 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 12 helping | mark |
| 12 | helping | help | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 chance | acl |
| 13 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 helping | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 answered | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 answered | punct |
| 16 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lose | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 horse | det |
| 18 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 answered | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind | imperative | you not said here | that | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not lose | infinitive · do-support | you not said here | a chance | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | help | gerund | a chance not said here | others | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | answer speech: assert | past | the horse | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent horse=Eventuality |
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.
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