The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 40
‘You can’t help us, at any rate.’
Who acts: You · What happens: not help · To what, where: us, rate
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 (You), 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 | _ | 5 help | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 help | nsubj |
| 3 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 help | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 help | advmod |
| 5 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 help | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 rate | punct |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 rate | case |
| 9 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 rate | det |
| 10 | rate | rate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 help | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 help | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not help | can | You | us | any rate | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/29/40/