The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 5, sentence 20
‘Oh, Puddocky, this time you can’t help me, for the task is beyond even your power,’ replied the Prince.
Who acts: you, task, Puddocky · What happens: not help, be, reply · To what, where: time, me
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 (you, task, Puddocky), 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 | _ | 24 replied | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 Puddocky | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | Puddocky | Puddocky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 replied | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 time | punct |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Puddocky | appos |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 help | nsubj |
| 9 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 help | aux |
| 10 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 help | advmod |
| 11 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 time | acl:relcl |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 help | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 power | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 power | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 task | det |
| 16 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 power | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 power | cop |
| 18 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 21 power | case |
| 19 | even | even | ADV | _ | 21 power | advmod |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 power | nmod:poss |
| 21 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 help | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 replied | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 replied | punct |
| 24 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Prince | det |
| 26 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 replied | nsubj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not help | can | you | this time not said here | me | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | is | present | the task | for your power | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | Puddocky | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=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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