The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 17
How the Hermit Helped to Win the King’s Daughter
Who acts: Hermit · What happens: help, win · To what, where: Daughter
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hermit), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 Helped | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Hermit | det |
| 3 | Hermit | Hermit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Helped | nsubj |
| 4 | Helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 Win | mark |
| 6 | Win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 Helped | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Daughter | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 King | case |
| 10 | Daughter | Daughter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Win | obj |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | past | the Hermit | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | win | to-infinitive | the Hermit not said here | the King's Daughter | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Eventuality |
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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