The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 5, sentence 15

The youngest was very depressed this time and said to himself, ‘Anything else Puddocky could have helped me in, but this task is quite beyond her power.

Who acts: youngest, Anything, task · What happens: be, say, help in · To what, where: father, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest, Anything, task), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 depressed	det
2	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 depressed	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 depressed	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 depressed	advmod
5	depressed	depressed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 depressed	obl:unmarked
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 depressed	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 himself	case
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 said	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 helped	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 Anything	punct
14	Anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 helped	nsubj
15	else	else	ADV	_	14 Anything	advmod
16	Puddocky	Puddocky	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Anything	appos
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 helped	aux
18	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 helped	aux
19	helped	help	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 said	conj
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 helped	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	19 helped	compound:prt
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 power	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 power	cc
24	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 task	det
25	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 power	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 power	cop
27	quite	quite	ADV	_	30 power	advmod
28	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	30 power	case
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 power	nmod:poss
30	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 helped	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 depressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	youngest		time	depressed property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	youngest not said here	father			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
3	help in	could · perfect	Anything	me			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary
4	is	present	this task			beyond Puddocky's power	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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