The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 10

The box was so heavy that the old woman had to help to carry it home, and you may guess what a supper the dog had that night!

Who acts: box, old woman, you, supper · What happens: be, have, help, carry, guess · To what, where: box · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Envious Neighbour. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (box, old woman, you, supper), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 box	det
2	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heavy	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heavy	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 heavy	advmod
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 had	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 woman	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heavy	advcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 help	mark
12	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 had	xcomp
13	to	to	PART	_	14 carry	mark
14	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 help	xcomp
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 carry	obj
16	home	home	ADV	_	14 carry	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 guess	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 guess	cc
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 guess	nsubj
20	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 guess	aux
21	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 heavy	conj
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 had	obj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 supper	det
24	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	nsubj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 dog	det
26	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	nsubj
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 guess	ccomp
28	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 night	det
29	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	obj
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 heavy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the box			heavy property	tree rules
2	have	past	the old woman				tree rules
3	help	to-infinitive	the old woman not said here				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	carry	to-infinitive	the old woman not said here	box		home property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	guess	may	you				vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	have	past	a supper		night		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient

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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