The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 76

‘The strength of twelve men!’ said the Finland woman; ‘that would not help much.

Who acts: strength, that · What happens: say, not help · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strength, that), 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	_	9 said	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 strength	det
3	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 men	case
5	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 men	nummod
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 strength	nmod
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 men	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 men	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 woman	det
11	Finland	Finland	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 woman	compound
12	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 help	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 help	punct
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 help	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 help	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 help	advmod
18	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
19	much	much	ADV	_	18 help	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the strength of twelve men						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not help	would	that						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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