The Blue Fairy Book, Why the Sea Is Salt, sentence 45
It may be that he finds he is not good at making pottage and I should do well to help him.”
Who acts: mill, dinner, I · What happens: find, not be, make, do, help · To what, where: pottage, mill
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Why the Sea Is Salt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mill, dinner, I), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 good | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 good | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 good | cop |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 finds | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 finds | nsubj |
| 6 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 good | advcl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 good | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 good | cop |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 good | advmod |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 12 making | mark |
| 12 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 good | advcl |
| 13 | pottage | pottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 making | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 do | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 do | nsubj |
| 16 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 do | aux |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 good | conj |
| 18 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 do | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 help | mark |
| 20 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 do | advcl |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 help | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 good | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | mill | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is | may | dinner | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | gerund | dinner not said here | pottage | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pottage=Product | ||||
| 4 | do | should | I | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | help | to-infinitive | I not said here | mill | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |
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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