The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 70
Uraschimataro did not wait to be asked twice, and thankfully accepted his friend’s help.
Who acts: Uraschimataro, friend · What happens: not wait, ask, accept, help · To what, where: help
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Uraschimataro, friend), 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 | Uraschimataro | Uraschimataro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 wait | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wait | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 wait | advmod |
| 4 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 asked | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 asked | aux:pass |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 wait | advcl |
| 8 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 asked | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 accepted | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 accepted | cc |
| 11 | thankfully | thankfully | ADV | _ | 12 accepted | advmod |
| 12 | accepted | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wait | parataxis |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 friend | nmod:poss |
| 14 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 help | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 friend | case |
| 16 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 accepted | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wait | past · do-support | Uraschimataro | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive · passive | Uraschimataro not said here | twice property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V» | ||||
| 3 | accept | past | couple's friend's help | thankfully property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent help=Theme | ||||
| 4 | help | couple's friend | nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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/pg5615/3/70/