The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 206
And then she cried harder than ever, for she could not help still loving him.
Who acts: fish · What happens: cry, not help, love · To what, where: Frisk
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fish), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 cried | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 cried | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | harder | hard | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 cried | advmod |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 ever | case |
| 7 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 harder | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 help | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 help | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 help | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 help | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 help | advmod |
| 13 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 cried | conj |
| 14 | still | still | ADV | _ | 15 loving | advmod |
| 15 | loving | love | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 help | advcl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 loving | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | fish | then | hard property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | not help | could | fish | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | love | gerund | fish not said here | Frisk | still | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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