The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 3
'Poor thanks would that be for all the help I have had from you.'
What happens: have · To what, where: Poor thanks
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 | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 2 | Poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thanks | amod |
| 3 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 13 had | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 had | aux |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 had | obj |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 had | aux:pass |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 help | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 help | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 help | det |
| 10 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obl |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 had | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 had | aux |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 you | case |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 had | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | would · perfect · passive | Poor thanks | for all help; from you | tree rules |
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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