The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 85
Assistance was out of the question--unless, he suddenly thought--unless the King of the Ants could help.
Who acts: Assistance, King · What happens: be, think, help · To what, where: question
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Assistance, King), 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 | Assistance | Assistance | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 question | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 question | cop |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 question | case |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 question | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 question | det |
| 6 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
| 8 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 12 thought | mark |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 unless | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 thought | nsubj |
| 11 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 12 thought | advmod |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 question | advcl |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 help | punct |
| 14 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 21 help | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 King | det |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 help | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Ants | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Ants | det |
| 19 | Ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 King | nmod |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 help | aux |
| 21 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 thought | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 question | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Assistance | the question | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other a condition, not said to happen | past | Assistance | suddenly property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | help a condition, not said to happen | could | the King of the Ants | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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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