The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 2
‘But it can’t be helped now.
What happens: not help · To what, where: horse
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 7 helped | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 helped | cc |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 helped | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 helped | aux |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 helped | advmod |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 helped | aux:pass |
| 7 | helped | help | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 helped | advmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 helped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not help | can · passive | horse | now | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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