More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 17

"Aye so," says the wise woman, "I might manage that, if so be thou 'lt help thyself."

Who acts: wise woman, thou, lt · What happens: say, manage, be, help · To what, where: that, lt, thyself · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wise woman, thou, lt), 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 so	punct
2	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	3 so	discourse
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 says	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 so	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 so	punct
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 woman	det
8	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 manage	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 manage	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 manage	nsubj
13	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 manage	aux
14	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 says	ccomp
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 manage	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 that	punct
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 help	mark
18	so	so	ADV	_	22 lt	advmod
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 lt	cop
20	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	22 lt	nsubj
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	22 lt	punct
22	lt	lt	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 help	nsubj
23	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 manage	advcl
24	thyself	thyself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch	23 help	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 manage	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 manage	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the wise woman		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	manage in a quote	might	the wise woman = woman	that	vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme
3	is a in a quote	infinitive	thou	lt	tree rules
4	help a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	lt	thyself	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thyself=Beneficiary

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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