The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 58

His first thought was to put back the terrible box and fly from the turret; but a voice in his ear said, ‘This hand belonged to one whom you can help and restore.

Who acts: first thought, voice, hand, prince · What happens: be, fly, say, ‘, belong, help · To what, where: turret, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first thought, voice, hand, prince), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 thought	nmod:poss
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 thought	amod
3	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	nsubj:outer
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 put	cop
5	to	to	PART	_	6 put	mark
6	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 put	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 box	det
9	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 box	amod
10	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 fly	cc
12	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 put	conj
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 turret	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 turret	det
15	turret	turret	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fly	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 said	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 voice	det
19	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 said	nsubj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 ear	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 ear	nmod:poss
22	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 voice	nmod
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 put	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 ‘	punct
25	‘	‘	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 said	xcomp
26	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 hand	det
27	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 belonged	nsubj
28	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 ‘	ccomp
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 one	case
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 belonged	obj
31	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 help	nsubj
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 help	nsubj
33	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 help	aux
34	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 one	acl:relcl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 restore	cc
36	restore	restore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 help	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	prince's first thought			put property	tree rules
2	fly	infinitive	prince's first thought not said here		the turret		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from turret=Trajectory
3	say speech: assert	past	a voice in prince's ear				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	‘	infinitive	a voice in prince's ear not said here				tree rules
5	belong	past	this hand	one			tree rules
6	help	can					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
7	restore	infinitive					vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
8	think		prince				nom thought «cognition transitive»: 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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