The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 3, sentence 8
As he was not very brave he accepted her aid gladly.
Who acts: preparation · What happens: not be, accept · To what, where: aid
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (preparation), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 brave | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 brave | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 brave | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 brave | advmod |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 brave | advmod |
| 6 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 accepted | nsubj |
| 8 | accepted | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 brave | conj |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 aid | nmod:poss |
| 10 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 accepted | obj |
| 11 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 8 accepted | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 brave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | preparation | brave property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | accept | past | preparation | message's aid | gladly property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aid=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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