The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 108

“You can imagine how angry I was, and how I tried to find some means of undoing the mischief she had done; but there was no help for it.

Who acts: You, Felicia, some, fairy · What happens: imagine, be, try, find, mean, undo · To what, where: mischief, help · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Felicia, some, fairy), 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	_	4 imagine	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 imagine	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 imagine	aux
4	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 angry	advmod
6	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 imagine	ccomp
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 angry	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 angry	cop
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tried	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 tried	cc
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 tried	advmod
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 tried	nsubj
13	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 imagine	parataxis
14	to	to	PART	_	15 find	mark
15	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 tried	xcomp
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 means	nsubj
17	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 find	ccomp
18	of	of	SCONJ	_	19 undoing	mark
19	undoing	undo	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 means	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 mischief	det
21	mischief	mischief	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 undoing	obj
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 done	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 done	aux
24	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 mischief	acl:relcl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 help	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 was	cc
27	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	28 was	expl
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 help	cop
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 help	det
30	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 imagine	obl
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 help	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 imagine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	imagine in a quote	can	You			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is in a quote	past	Felicia		angry property	tree rules
3	try in a quote	past	Felicia			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	find not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Felicia not said here			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	mean in a quote	present	some			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
6	undo in a quote	gerund	some not said here	the mischief		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mischief=Patient
7	do in a quote	past · perfect	fairy	the mischief not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mischief=Eventuality
8	is a in a quote	past		no help	for help	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 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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