The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 26
'Poor thanks were that for all the help you have given me.'
What happens: give · To what, where: Poor thanks, me
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 12 given | punct |
| 2 | Poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thanks | amod |
| 3 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 12 given | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 given | aux:pass |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 given | mark |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 help | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 help | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 help | det |
| 9 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 given | obl |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 given | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 given | aux |
| 12 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 given | iobj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 given | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · perfect · passive | Poor thanks | me | for all help | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: subject=Recipient i=Theme for help=Asset |
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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