The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 36
The youngest of them, indeed, asked where Esben was, but the others said that that little fool could scarcely keep himself in clothes, and it was not to be expected that he could help them.
Who acts: youngest, Esben, others, little fool, fool · What happens: ask, be, say, keep, not expect, help · To what, where: fool, clothes, escape, brothers · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest, Esben, others, little fool), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 youngest | det |
| 2 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 youngest | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 youngest | punct |
| 6 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 2 youngest | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 was | advmod |
| 10 | Esben | Esben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 was | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 asked | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 others | det |
| 15 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 asked | parataxis |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 keep | mark |
| 18 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 fool | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 fool | amod |
| 20 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 keep | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 keep | aux |
| 22 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 23 keep | advmod |
| 23 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 24 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 keep | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 clothes | case |
| 26 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 23 keep | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 expected | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 expected | cc |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 expected | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 expected | aux:pass |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 expected | advmod |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 expected | mark |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 expected | aux:pass |
| 34 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 asked | parataxis |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 help | mark |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 help | nsubj |
| 37 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 help | aux |
| 38 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 expected | advcl |
| 39 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 help | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the youngest of brothers | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | be | past | Esben | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the others | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | keep | could | that little fool | fool | clothes | scarcely property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in clothes=Location | ||
| 5 | not expect | past · passive | escape | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 6 | help | could | fool | brothers = brother | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary |
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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