The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 22

'It is extraordinary that they cannot unlock themselves; but as no one else seems able to help them I suppose I must go and do it.'

Who acts: clatter, bed, one, I · What happens: be, not unlock, seem, help, suppose, go · To what, where: bed, clatter · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (clatter, bed, one, 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	_	4 extraordinary	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 extraordinary	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 extraordinary	cop
4	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 unlock	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 unlock	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 unlock	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 unlock	advmod
9	unlock	unlock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 extraordinary	advcl
10	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 unlock	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 suppose	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 suppose	cc
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 seems	mark
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 one	det
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 seems	nsubj
16	else	else	ADV	_	15 one	advmod
17	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 suppose	advcl
18	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 seems	xcomp
19	to	to	PART	_	20 help	mark
20	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 able	xcomp
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 help	obj
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 suppose	nsubj
23	suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 extraordinary	parataxis
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 go	nsubj
25	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 go	aux
26	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 suppose	ccomp
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 do	cc
28	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 go	conj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 do	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 extraordinary	punct
31	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 extraordinary	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	clatter		extraordinary property	tree rules
2	not unlock	can	bed	bed		vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient
3	seem	present	no one		able property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	help	to-infinitive	no one not said here	bed		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary
5	suppose	present	I			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	go	must	I			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	do	infinitive	I not said here	clatter		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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