The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 25
At last she could bear it no longer, and resolved to seek help from the Prince.
Who acts: thread · What happens: bear, resolve, seek · To what, where: misery, last, help
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thread), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bear | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bear | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 bear | aux |
| 5 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bear | obj |
| 7 | no | no | ADV | _ | 8 longer | advmod |
| 8 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 bear | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 resolved | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 resolved | cc |
| 11 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bear | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 seek | mark |
| 13 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 resolved | xcomp |
| 14 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seek | obj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 Prince | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Prince | det |
| 17 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 seek | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | could | thread | misery | last | long property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||
| 2 | resolve | past | thread not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | seek | to-infinitive | thread not said here | help | from the Prince | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent help=Theme |
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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