The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 170

Perhaps now, in my hour of need, they may be of use to me.’

Who acts: ways · What happens: be · To what, where: me

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ways), 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	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	2 now	advmod
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 use	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 now	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 hour	case
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hour	nmod:poss
6	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 use	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 need	case
8	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hour	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hour	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 use	nsubj
11	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 use	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 use	cop
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 use	case
14	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 me	case
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 use	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 use	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 use	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	may	ways = way		me		now; hour	of use	tree rules

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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