The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 131

‘I couldn’t help it,’ she said; ‘I had more than twenty times further to come than any bird that has come here to-day.’

Who acts: I, noise, bird · What happens: not help, say, have, come · To what, where: sky · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, noise, bird), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 help	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 help	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 help	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 help	advmod
5	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 help	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 help	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 help	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
15	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	17 twenty	advmod
16	than	than	ADP	_	15 more	fixed
17	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 times	nummod
18	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 had	obl:unmarked
19	further	further	ADV	_	21 come	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 come	mark
21	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 had	xcomp
22	than	than	ADP	_	24 bird	case
23	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	24 bird	det
24	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 come	obl
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 come	nsubj
26	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 come	aux
27	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 bird	acl:relcl
28	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 come	advmod
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 day	case
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 to	punct
31	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 come	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not help	could	I	sky				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary
2	say speech: assert	past	noise					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	past	I			time		tree rules
4	come	to-infinitive	I not said here				than any bird; further property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	come	present · perfect	any bird		here	day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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