The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 67
Ferko recognised the queen bee, and said, ‘Alas! how could you help me? for I have been set to do a task which no one in the whole world could do, let him be ever such a genius!
Who acts: Ferko, you, one · What happens: recognise, say, help, set, do, let · To what, where: queen bee, me, I, task, Ferko · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ferko, you, one), 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 | Ferko | Ferko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 recognised | nsubj |
| 2 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bee | det |
| 4 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bee | compound |
| 5 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 recognised | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 recognised | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Alas | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 Alas | punct |
| 11 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 16 help | discourse |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 Alas | punct |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 help | advmod |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 help | aux |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 help | nsubj |
| 16 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 help | obj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 help | punct |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 set | mark |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 set | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 set | aux |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 set | aux:pass |
| 23 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 help | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 do | mark |
| 25 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 set | xcomp |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 task | det |
| 27 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 do | obj |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 do | obj |
| 29 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 30 one | det |
| 30 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 do | nsubj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 world | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 world | det |
| 33 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 world | amod |
| 34 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 one | nmod |
| 35 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 do | aux |
| 36 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 task | acl:relcl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 let | punct |
| 38 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 help | conj |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 let | obj |
| 40 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 41 ever | cop |
| 41 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 38 let | xcomp |
| 42 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 44 genius | det:predet |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 genius | det |
| 44 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 let | obl:unmarked |
| 45 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 recognised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recognise | past | Ferko | the queen bee | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bee=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Ferko not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | help | could | you | me | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | set | present · perfect · passive | I | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | a task | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | do | could | no one in the whole world | a task | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | let | infinitive | you not said here | Ferko | such genius obl:unmarked | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 8 | is | infinitive | Ferko not said here | ever property | tree rules |
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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