The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 120

Helena, who for long had heard no friendly voice, confided her sad tale of woe to the Fairy, and told her what the new task she had been given to do was, and how she despaired of ever accomplishing it.

Who acts: Helena, woe · What happens: hear, confide, tell, give, do, despair · To what, where: friendly voice, sad tale, Fairy, HELENA, task · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Helena, woe), 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	Helena	Helena	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 confided	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 heard	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 heard	nsubj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 long	case
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 heard	obl
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 heard	aux
7	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Helena	acl:relcl
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 voice	det
9	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 voice	amod
10	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heard	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Helena	punct
12	confided	confide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 tale	nmod:poss
14	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 tale	amod
15	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 confided	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 woe	case
17	woe	woe	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tale	nmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 Fairy	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Fairy	det
20	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 confided	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 told	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 told	cc
23	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 confided	parataxis
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 told	iobj
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 told	obj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 task	det
27	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 task	amod
28	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 was	nsubj
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 given	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 given	aux
31	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 given	aux:pass
32	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 task	acl:relcl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 do	mark
34	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 given	xcomp
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 what	acl:relcl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 despaired	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 despaired	cc
38	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	40 despaired	advmod
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 despaired	nsubj
40	despaired	despair	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 told	conj
41	of	of	SCONJ	_	43 accomplishing	mark
42	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	43 accomplishing	advmod
43	accomplishing	accomplish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 despaired	advcl
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 accomplishing	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 confided	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	hear	past · perfect	Helena	no friendly voice			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus
2	confide speech: other	past	Helena	HELENA's sad tale of woe	the Fairy		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Topic to fairy=Recipient
3	tell speech: assert	past			HELENA		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient what=Topic
4	give	past · perfect · passive		HELENA			tree rules
5	do	to-infinitive					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	despair	past	HELENA				vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	accomplish	gerund	HELENA not said here	task		ever	vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
8	tell		woe				nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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