The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 19

'The boy does not seem to be able to part the beasts,' he cried to his second brother; 'go and help him, or I shall never get to sleep.'

Who acts: boy, I · What happens: not seem, be, cry, go, help, not get · To what, where: second brother, boy

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, I), 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	_	6 seem	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seem	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 seem	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 seem	advmod
6	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	9 able	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 able	cop
9	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 seem	xcomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 part	mark
11	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 able	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 beasts	det
13	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 part	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 cried	punct
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 cried	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 cried	nsubj
17	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 seem	parataxis
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 brother	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 brother	nmod:poss
20	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	21 brother	amod
21	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cried	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 go	punct
23	'	'	PUNCT	_	24 go	punct
24	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 cried	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 help	cc
26	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 go	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 help	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 get	punct
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 get	cc
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 get	nsubj
31	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 get	aux
32	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	33 get	advmod
33	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 go	parataxis
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 sleep	case
35	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 get	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 seem	punct
37	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 seem	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	not seem	present · do-support	the boy			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive	the boy not said here		able property	tree rules
3	cry speech: express	past	boy	boy's second brother		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to brother=Recipient
4	go	infinitive	boy not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	help	infinitive	boy not said here	boy		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary
6	not get	shall	I		to sleep result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to sleep=Result

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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