The Violet Fairy Book, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish, sentence 28

You had better submit to your fate, and make no noise about it, for though I pity you from my heart there is no way of helping you.’

Who acts: You, I, way, your · What happens: have, submit, make, pity, be, help · To what, where: noise, you, heart

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I, way, your), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 had	advmod
4	submit	submit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 fate	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 fate	nmod:poss
7	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 submit	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 make	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 make	cc
10	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 noise	det
12	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 make	obj
13	about	about	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 make	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 pity	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 pity	mark
17	though	though	SCONJ	_	19 pity	mark
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 pity	nsubj
19	pity	pity	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 is	advcl
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 pity	obj
21	from	from	ADP	_	23 heart	case
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 heart	nmod:poss
23	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pity	obl
24	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 is	expl
25	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 make	conj
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 way	det
27	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 is	nsubj
28	of	of	SCONJ	_	29 helping	mark
29	helping	help	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 way	acl
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 helping	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	You				well property	tree rules
2	submit	infinitive	You not said here				to your fate	vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to fate=Theme
3	make	present		no noise			about noise	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product
4	pity	present	I	you		my heart		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
5	be	present	no way			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	help	gerund	no way not said here		you			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary
7	fate		your					nom fate «event 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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