The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 133

And in some way or other they made him understand that if he needed more help they would give it to him.

Who acts: strength, boy · What happens: make, understand, need, give · To what, where: boy, way, more help, help

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strength, boy), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 made	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 way	case
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 way	det
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	obl
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 other	cc
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 way	conj
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 made	nsubj
8	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 made	obj
10	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 made	xcomp
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 needed	mark
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 needed	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 needed	nsubj
14	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 understand	advcl
15	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 help	amod
16	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 needed	obj
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 give	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 give	aux
19	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 help	acl:relcl
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 give	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 give	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	make	past	strength	boy		some way	tree rules
2	understand	infinitive	boy not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	need a condition, not said to happen	past	boy	more help			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme
4	give	would	strength	help	boy		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to he=Recipient

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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