More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 59
Tell me if aught I can do will save you, Tamlane?"
Who acts: you, I, aught · What happens: tell, do, save · To what, where: me, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15. 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, aught), 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 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Tell | iobj |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 save | mark |
| 4 | aught | aught | PRON | PronType=Ind | 9 save | nsubj |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 do | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | aux |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 aught | acl:relcl |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 save | aux |
| 9 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Tell | ccomp |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 save | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Tamlane | punct |
| 12 | Tamlane | Tamlane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 save | vocative |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tell | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | do | can | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | save a condition, not said to happen | future | aught | you | Tamlane vocative | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
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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