The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 45

‘I have nobody to help me,’ answered the prince, ‘but my own poor head.’

Who acts: I · What happens: have, help, answer · To what, where: nobody, me, prince · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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	_	3 have	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 answered	ccomp
4	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 have	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 help	mark
6	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 nobody	acl
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 help	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
10	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 prince	det
12	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 answered	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 head	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 head	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 head	cc
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 head	nmod:poss
17	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 head	amod
18	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 head	amod
19	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 prince	appos
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 head	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 head	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	have	present	I	nobody		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nobody=Patient
2	help	to-infinitive	I not said here	nobody not said here	me	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary
3	answer speech: assert	past			the prince	tree rules

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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