The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 35
However, there was no help for it, and, painful as it was, I had to submit.
Who acts: help, I · What happens: be, have, submit
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, 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 (help, I), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 was | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 was | expl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 painful | cop |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 help | det |
| 6 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 was | nsubj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 help | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 painful | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 painful | cc |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 painful | punct |
| 12 | painful | painful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 was | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 was | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 painful | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 had | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 had | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 painful | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 submit | mark |
| 20 | submit | submit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 had | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 painful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | painful property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | be | past | help | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have | past | I | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | submit | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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