The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 44
‘Have you really managed it all yourself, or did somebody help you?’
Who acts: you, somebody · What happens: manage, help · To what, where: stable, you
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 (you, somebody), 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 managed | punct |
| 2 | Have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 managed | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 managed | nsubj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 managed | advmod |
| 5 | managed | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 managed | obj |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 it | det |
| 8 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 managed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 help | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 help | cc |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 help | aux |
| 12 | somebody | somebody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 help | nsubj |
| 13 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 managed | parataxis |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 help | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 help | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | manage | present | you | stable | yourself obl | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | help | past · do-support | somebody | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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 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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