The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 5
‘How can I help being sad?
Who acts: I · What happens: help, be
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 (I), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 help | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 help | advmod |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 help | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 help | nsubj |
| 5 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 sad | cop |
| 7 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 help | xcomp |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | can | I | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | gerund | I not said here | sad property | tree rules |
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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