The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 89
There was no help for it, and the minister had to push on by himself, if he expected to arrive in time for the christening.
Who acts: help, minister · What happens: be, have, push on, expect, arrive
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (help, minister), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 help | det |
| 4 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 help | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 had | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 minister | det |
| 10 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 push | mark |
| 13 | push | push | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 had | xcomp |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 push | compound:prt |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 himself | case |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 push | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 expected | punct |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 expected | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 expected | nsubj |
| 20 | expected | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 had | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 arrive | mark |
| 22 | arrive | arrive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 expected | xcomp |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 time | case |
| 24 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 arrive | obl |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 christening | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 christening | det |
| 27 | christening | christening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 time | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | no help for way | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the minister | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | push on | to-infinitive | the minister not said here | by minister | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent by himself=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | expect a condition, not said to happen | past | minister | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | arrive not said to happen | to-infinitive | minister not said here | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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