The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 60
In this he had to help him not only the fowlers by profession, but also his attendants, who excelled in this art.
Who acts: bird, attendants · What happens: have, help, excel · To what, where: this, bird, art
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird, attendants), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 had | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 help | mark |
| 6 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 had | xcomp |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 help | obj |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 fowlers | advmod |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 fowlers | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fowlers | det |
| 11 | fowlers | fowler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 help | obl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 profession | case |
| 13 | profession | profession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 help | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 attendants | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 attendants | cc |
| 16 | also | also | ADV | _ | 18 attendants | advmod |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 attendants | nmod:poss |
| 18 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 had | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 excelled | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 excelled | nsubj |
| 21 | excelled | excel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 attendants | acl:relcl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 art | case |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 art | det |
| 24 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 excelled | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | bird | this | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | help | to-infinitive | bird not said here | bird | by profession; the fowlers obl | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | excel | past | bird's attendants | this art | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in art=Eventuality |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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