The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 28
The good old woman, not knowing very well what to do in this affair, cried out for help.
Who acts: good old woman · What happens: not know, do, cry out · To what, where: affair
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good old woman), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 knowing | punct |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 knowing | advmod |
| 7 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 woman | conj |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 well | advmod |
| 9 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 knowing | advmod |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 do | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 do | mark |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 knowing | xcomp |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 affair | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 affair | det |
| 15 | affair | affair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 do | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 woman | punct |
| 17 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 cried | compound:prt |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 help | case |
| 20 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cried | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | gerund | the good old woman not said here | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | the good old woman not said here | this affair | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | cry out speech: express | past | the good old woman | for help | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for help=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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