The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 36

He had beheld no one except the old women, and it was not very likely that they would be able to help him.

Who acts: noise, river, sides · What happens: behold, not be, be, help · To what, where: one, noise

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noise, river, sides), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 beheld	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 beheld	aux
3	beheld	behold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 one	det
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 beheld	obj
6	except	except	ADP	_	9 women	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 women	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 women	amod
9	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 one	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 likely	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 likely	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 likely	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 likely	cop
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 likely	advmod
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 likely	advmod
16	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 beheld	parataxis
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 able	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 able	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 able	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 able	cop
21	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 likely	xcomp
22	to	to	PART	_	23 help	mark
23	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 able	xcomp
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 help	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 beheld	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	behold	past · perfect	noise	no one		except the old women	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
2	not is	past	river			likely property	tree rules
3	is	would	sides = side			able property	tree rules
4	help	to-infinitive	sides = side not said here		noise		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: «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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