The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 16

Yes, there was no doubt of it—he was quite alone; and he had nothing to help him except the knife which his comrade had purposely dropped on the ledge of the window.

Who acts: doubt · What happens: be, have, help, drop, doubt · To what, where: nothing, doubt, comrade, ledge, sea

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doubt), 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	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 there	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 was	expl
4	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 doubt	det
6	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 was	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 doubt	nmod
9	—	-	PUNCT	_	13 alone	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 alone	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 alone	cop
12	quite	quite	ADV	_	13 alone	advmod
13	alone	alone	ADV	_	4 was	advmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 had	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 was	parataxis
18	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 had	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 help	mark
20	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 nothing	acl
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 help	obj
22	except	except	ADP	_	24 knife	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 knife	det
24	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 help	obl
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 dropped	obj
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 comrade	nmod:poss
27	comrade	comrade	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 dropped	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 dropped	aux
29	purposely	purposely	ADV	_	30 dropped	advmod
30	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 knife	acl:relcl
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 ledge	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 ledge	det
33	ledge	ledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 dropped	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 window	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 window	det
36	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 ledge	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	no doubt of sea			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	doubt				alone property	tree rules
3	have	past	doubt	nothing				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
4	help	to-infinitive	doubt not said here	nothing not said here	doubt		except the knife	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary
5	drop	past · perfect · passive		doubt's comrade		the ledge of the window	purposely property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme which=Destination
6	doubt			sea				nom doubt «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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