The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 25
‘Oh, I have had no help,’ replied the prince, ‘except what my poor weak head could give me.’
Who acts: I, poor weak head · What happens: have, reply, give · To what, where: help, prince, me
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, 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 (I, poor weak head), 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 | _ | 6 had | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 had | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 had | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 had | aux |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 help | det |
| 8 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 had | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 prince | det |
| 13 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 what | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 what | punct |
| 16 | except | except | ADP | _ | 17 what | case |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 replied | obl |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 head | nmod:poss |
| 19 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 head | amod |
| 20 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 head | amod |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 give | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 give | aux |
| 23 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 what | acl:relcl |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 give | iobj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present · perfect | I | no help | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent help=Patient | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the prince | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prince=Topic | |||||
| 3 | give | could | my poor weak head | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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