The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 127
No help was near, so she cried at last in her anguish:
Who acts: help, heart · What happens: be, cry, anguish · To what, where: last
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (help, heart), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 help | det |
| 2 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 near | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 near | cop |
| 4 | near | near | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 cried | advmod |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 cried | nsubj |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 near | conj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 last | case |
| 10 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cried | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 anguish | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 anguish | nmod:poss |
| 13 | anguish | anguish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | obl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 near | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | no help | near property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | heart | last | in heart's anguish | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location | |||
| 3 | anguish | heart | nom anguish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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