The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 30
He was told to help the other men to clean out the well.
Who acts: Hans · What happens: tell, help, clean out · To what, where: Hans, other men · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hans), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | aux:pass |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 help | mark |
| 5 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 told | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 men | det |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 men | amod |
| 8 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 help | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 clean | mark |
| 10 | clean | clean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 help | advcl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 clean | compound:prt |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 well | det |
| 13 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 clean | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | Hans | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | help not said to happen | to-infinitive | Hans not said here | the other men | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | clean out | to-infinitive | Hans not said here | well property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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