More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 95
"Wise man! smart fellow!" said the landlord, "and help me along, wilt thee?
Who acts: Wise man · What happens: say, help · To what, where: landlord, Wise man · 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 (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 man | punct |
| 2 | Wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 fellow | punct |
| 5 | smart | smart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fellow | amod |
| 6 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 man | appos |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 fellow | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 fellow | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 landlord | det |
| 11 | landlord | landlord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 help | cc |
| 15 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | conj |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 help | obj |
| 17 | along | along | ADV | _ | 15 help | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wilt | punct |
| 19 | wilt | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 help | advcl |
| 20 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 help | obj |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | Wise man | the landlord | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent landlord=Topic | ||||
| 2 | help in a quote | infinitive | Wise man not said here | Wise man = man | along 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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