The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 1

Then Ferko recognised the mouse whose front paws he had healed, and replied, ‘Alas I how can you help me in a matter that is beyond any human power!

Who acts: Ferko, front paws, I, matter · What happens: recognise, heal, reply, help, be · To what, where: mouse, me, matter

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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 (Ferko, front paws, I, matter), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 recognised	advmod
2	Ferko	Ferko	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 recognised	nsubj
3	recognised	recognise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mouse	det
5	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 recognised	obj
6	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	8 paws	nmod:poss
7	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 paws	amod
8	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 healed	nsubj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 healed	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 healed	aux
11	healed	heal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 mouse	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 replied	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 replied	cc
14	replied	reply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 recognised	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Alas	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 Alas	punct
17	Alas	ala	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 recognised	obl
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 help	nsubj
19	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	22 help	advmod
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 help	aux
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 help	nsubj
22	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 Alas	acl:relcl
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 help	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 matter	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 matter	det
26	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 help	obl
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 power	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 power	cop
29	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	32 power	case
30	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	32 power	det
31	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 power	amod
32	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 matter	acl:relcl
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 recognised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recognise	past	Ferko	the mouse			then	Alas obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mouse=Stimulus
2	heal	past · perfect	front paws						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	reply speech: assert	participle	Ferko not said here						vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	help	can	I		me	a matter			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary
5	is	present	a matter					beyond any human power	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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