More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 94
You told me to drink so as to get a coat o' clay; but as I'm a wise man now I don't mind helping thee along in the world a bit, for though I'm a smart fellow I'm not too proud to my friends."
Who acts: You, I, wise man · What happens: tell, drink, get, be, not mind, help · To what, where: me, coat, wise man, thee, world, smart fellow · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I, wise man), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 told | iobj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 drink | mark |
| 5 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 told | xcomp |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 drink | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 get | mark |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 get | mark |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 drink | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 coat | det |
| 11 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 get | obj |
| 12 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 14 clay | case |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 clay | punct |
| 14 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 get | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 mind | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 mind | cc |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 man | mark |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 man | nsubj |
| 19 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 man | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 21 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 man | amod |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 mind | nsubj |
| 23 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 man | advmod |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 mind | nsubj |
| 25 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 mind | aux |
| 26 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 mind | advmod |
| 27 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 told | ccomp |
| 28 | helping | help | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 mind | xcomp |
| 29 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 28 helping | obj |
| 30 | along | along | ADV | _ | 28 helping | advmod |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 world | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 world | det |
| 33 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 helping | obl |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 bit | det |
| 35 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 helping | obl:unmarked |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 fellow | punct |
| 37 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 43 fellow | mark |
| 38 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 43 fellow | mark |
| 39 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 43 fellow | nsubj |
| 40 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 fellow | cop |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 fellow | det |
| 42 | smart | smart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 fellow | amod |
| 43 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 mind | parataxis |
| 44 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 48 proud | nsubj |
| 45 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 48 proud | cop |
| 46 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 48 proud | advmod |
| 47 | too | too | ADV | _ | 48 proud | advmod |
| 48 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 fellow | acl:relcl |
| 49 | to | to | ADP | _ | 51 friends | case |
| 50 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 friends | nmod:poss |
| 51 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 proud | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 mind | punct |
| 53 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 mind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | You | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | drink not said to happen | to-infinitive | You not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | You not said here | a coat | of clay | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer coat=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | is a | present | I | a wise man | now | tree rules | |||
| 5 | not mind | present · do-support | a wise man | vn care-88.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | help | gerund | a wise man not said here | thee | the world | a bit obl:unmarked; along property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Beneficiary | ||
| 7 | is a | present | I | a smart fellow | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | not is | present | I | a smart fellow not said here | to my friends; proud 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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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