The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 28
‘It was really very tiresome, but as there was no help for it I went down!
Who acts: haste, I · What happens: be, go down · To what, where: help
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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 (haste, 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 | _ | 6 tiresome | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 tiresome | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 tiresome | cop |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 tiresome | advmod |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 tiresome | advmod |
| 6 | tiresome | tiresome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 help | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 help | cc |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 was | mark |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 was | expl |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 help | cop |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 help | det |
| 13 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tiresome | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 help | nmod |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 help | acl:relcl |
| 18 | down | down | ADV | _ | 17 went | advmod |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 tiresome | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | haste | tiresome property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | haste not said here | no help | for haste | tree rules | |||
| 3 | go down | past | I | no help not said here | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient help=Extent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/38/28/