The Violet Fairy Book, The Frog, sentence 48
Would the frog be able to help him in this new difficulty?
Who acts: frog · What happens: be, help · To what, where: frog, new difficulty
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Frog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (frog), 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 | Would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 able | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 frog | det |
| 3 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 able | nsubj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 able | cop |
| 5 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 help | mark |
| 7 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 able | xcomp |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 help | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 difficulty | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 difficulty | det |
| 11 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 difficulty | amod |
| 12 | difficulty | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 help | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | the frog | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | help | to-infinitive | the frog not said here | frog | this new difficulty | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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