The Green Fairy Book, Fairy Gifts, sentence 20
I cannot help her; my gifts can be given but once.’
Who acts: I, my · What happens: not help, give, gift · To what, where: Fairy, gifts
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Fairy Gifts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, my), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 help | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 help | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 help | advmod |
| 4 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 help | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 given | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 gifts | nmod:poss |
| 8 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 given | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 given | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 given | aux:pass |
| 11 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 help | parataxis |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 once | cc |
| 13 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 11 given | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 help | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not help | can | I | Fairy | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | give | can · passive | my gifts | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | gift | my | nom gift «possession 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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