The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 58
But I have passed my royal word, and I cannot break it, so there is no help for you.’
Who acts: I, help, my · What happens: pass, not break, be, word · To what, where: royal word, Giovanni
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, help, my), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 passed | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 passed | aux |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 word | nmod:poss |
| 6 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 word | amod |
| 7 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 break | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 break | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 break | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 break | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 break | advmod |
| 13 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 passed | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 break | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 is | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 is | advmod |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 is | expl |
| 18 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 passed | parataxis |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 help | det |
| 20 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 is | nsubj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 you | case |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 help | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | present · perfect | I | my royal word | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme word=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | not break | can | I | Giovanni | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | be | present | no help for you | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | word | my | nom word «communication 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.
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