The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 92

However, though I really cannot help your nose being a shock to me, I will try not to say anything about it.

Who acts: I, nose · What happens: not help, be, try, not say · To what, where: shock, me, anything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, nose), 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	However	however	ADV	_	19 try	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	though	though	SCONJ	_	8 help	mark
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 help	nsubj
5	really	really	ADV	_	8 help	advmod
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 help	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 help	advmod
8	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 try	advcl
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 nose	nmod:poss
10	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shock	nsubj
11	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 shock	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 shock	det
13	shock	shock	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 help	parataxis
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 me	case
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 shock	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 help	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 try	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 try	aux
19	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 say	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 say	mark
22	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 try	xcomp
23	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	22 say	obj
24	about	about	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 anything	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 try	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not help	can	I				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	is a	gerund	your nose	a shock	me		tree rules
3	try	future	I			however property	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	not say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	anything		about nose	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic

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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