The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 67
Then number one began again and cried: “That’ll not help him!
Who acts: number, That · What happens: begin, cry, not help · To what, where: number · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Trusty John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (number, That), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 began | advmod |
| 2 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 began | nsubj |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 number | flat |
| 4 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 began | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 cried | cc |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 began | conj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 help | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 help | punct |
| 10 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 help | nsubj |
| 11 | ’ll | 'll | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 help | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 help | advmod |
| 13 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 cried | advcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 help | obj |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | number | then; again | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | number not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not help in a quote | present | That | number | 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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