The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 68
‘There is no help for it; I must go back and get a better horse,’ said he, and mounted again and rode homewards.
Who acts: help, I · What happens: be, go back, get, say, mount, ride · To what, where: better horse, homewards · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (help, 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 is | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 go | advcl |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 help | det |
| 5 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 help | nmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 go | nsubj |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 go | aux |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 go | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 get | cc |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 go | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 horse | det |
| 16 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 horse | amod |
| 17 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 get | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 go | parataxis |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 said | nsubj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 mounted | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 mounted | cc |
| 24 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 said | ccomp |
| 25 | again | again | ADV | _ | 24 mounted | advmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 rode | cc |
| 27 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 mounted | conj |
| 28 | homewards | homeward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 rode | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | no help for smoke | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go back | must | I | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | get | infinitive | I not said here | a better horse | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | help | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | mount | participle | again | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | ride | past | homewards | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homeward=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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