The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 11
He felt himself disgraced in the eyes of his father, but there was no help for it.
Who acts: Norka, help · What happens: feel, disgrace, be · To what, where: Norka, eyes
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Norka, help), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 felt | obj |
| 4 | disgraced | disgrace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 felt | xcomp |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 eyes | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 eyes | det |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 disgraced | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 father | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 father | nmod:poss |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 eyes | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 was | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 was | cc |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 was | expl |
| 14 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 felt | parataxis |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 help | det |
| 16 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 was | nsubj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 help | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | Norka | Norka | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | disgrace | participle | Norka not said here | the eyes of Norka's father | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | be | past | no help for park | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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