The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 115
Then they realised that the sign would not help them at all.
Who acts: doors, sign · What happens: realise, not help · To what, where: doors, all · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doors, sign), 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 realised | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 realised | nsubj |
| 3 | realised | realise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 help | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sign | det |
| 6 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 help | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 help | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 help | advmod |
| 9 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 realised | ccomp |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 help | obj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 all | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 help | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 realised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | realise | past | doors = door | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not help | would | the sign | doors = door | all | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary |
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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