The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 9
“But I can’t help feeling sorry for the poor children,” added the husband.
Who acts: husband · What happens: not help, feel, add · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hansel and Grettel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband), 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 | _ | 6 help | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 help | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 help | nsubj |
| 4 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 help | aux |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 help | advmod |
| 6 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 added | ccomp |
| 7 | feeling | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 help | xcomp |
| 8 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 feeling | xcomp |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 children | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 children | det |
| 11 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 children | amod |
| 12 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 feeling | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 help | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 help | punct |
| 15 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 husband | det |
| 17 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 added | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not help in a quote | can | the husband = husband | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | feel not said to happen, in a quote | gerund | the husband = husband not said here | for the poor children; sorry property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | add speech: assert | past | the husband | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=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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