The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 183
This was some help to them, but very soon they were just as cold as before.
Who acts: This, teeth · What happens: be · To what, where: help, teeth
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 (This, teeth), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 help | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 help | cop |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 help | det |
| 4 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 help | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cold | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 cold | cc |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 soon | advmod |
| 10 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 cold | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 cold | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 cold | cop |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 cold | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 cold | advmod |
| 15 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 help | conj |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 before | case |
| 17 | before | before | ADV | _ | 15 cold | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | some help | teeth = tooth | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | teeth = tooth | cold, soon property | tree rules |
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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