The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 18
Who knows if, after all, help may not be sent to you?’
What happens: know, help, not send · To what, where: all, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch (28). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 knows | nsubj |
| 2 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 all | mark |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 if | punct |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 all | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 all | punct |
| 8 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 all | nmod |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 sent | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 sent | advmod |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 sent | aux:pass |
| 12 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 knows | ccomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 you | case |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 sent | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 knows | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | help | infinitive | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | not send | may · passive | all | you | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to you=Destination |
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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