The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 101
‘There is no help for it,’ said the Master Thief; ‘go you must, whether you like it or not.
Who acts: help, Master Thief, you · What happens: be, say, go, like · To what, where: you, kind · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (help, Master Thief, you), 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 is | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 help | det |
| 5 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 help | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Thief | det |
| 12 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Thief | compound |
| 13 | Thief | Thief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 go | obj |
| 18 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 go | aux |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 like | punct |
| 20 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 22 like | mark |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 like | nsubj |
| 22 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 go | parataxis |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 like | obj |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 not | cc |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 like | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | no help for kind | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Master Thief | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go | must | you | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location you=Theme | |||||
| 4 | like | present | you | kind | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=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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