The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 157
If the father ever tried to come to his daughter’s help, his wife turned upon him, and things were rather worse than before.
Who acts: father, wife, things, daughter · What happens: try, come, turn, be, help · To what, where: help
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, wife, things, daughter), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 tried | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 father | det |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tried | nsubj |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 tried | advmod |
| 5 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 turned | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 come | mark |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 tried | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 help | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 10 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 help | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 daughter | case |
| 12 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 tried | punct |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 wife | nmod:poss |
| 15 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 turned | nsubj |
| 16 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 turned | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 worse | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 worse | cc |
| 21 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 worse | nsubj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 worse | cop |
| 23 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 24 worse | advmod |
| 24 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 turned | conj |
| 25 | than | than | ADP | _ | 26 before | case |
| 26 | before | before | ADV | _ | 24 worse | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try a condition, not said to happen | past | the father | ever | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | come not said to happen | to-infinitive | the father not said here | father's daughter's help | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to help=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | turn | past | father's wife | upon father | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme upon he=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | is | past | things | bad property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | help | father's daughter | nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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