The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 51
It may be that God will help me to find and catch it.’
Who acts: It · What happens: be, find, catch · To what, where: search
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 help | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 help | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 help | cop |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 help | mark |
| 5 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 help | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 help | aux |
| 7 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 help | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 find | mark |
| 10 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 help | xcomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 catch | cc |
| 12 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 find | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 catch | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 help | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | may · future | It | help property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | catch | infinitive | search | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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 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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