The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 68
‘Heaven help thee, little creature! thou art far too little for that,’ said the woman; ‘it would never do.’
Who acts: Heaven, woman, creature · What happens: help, say, not do · To what, where: thee · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, 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 (Heaven, woman, creature), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 help | punct |
| 2 | Heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 help | nsubj |
| 3 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | ccomp |
| 4 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 help | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 creature | punct |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 creature | amod |
| 7 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 help | obl |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 help | punct |
| 9 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 art | nsubj |
| 10 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 help | parataxis |
| 11 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 little | advmod |
| 12 | too | too | ADV | _ | 13 little | advmod |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 art | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 that | case |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 little | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 help | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 help | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 woman | det |
| 20 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | nsubj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 do | punct |
| 22 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 do | punct |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 do | nsubj |
| 24 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 do | aux |
| 25 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 26 do | advmod |
| 26 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 said | ccomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 do | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | Heaven | thee | little creature obl | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not do | would | creature | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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