More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 38
Help me, and lay my sack upon my shoulders."
Who acts: you · What happens: help, lay · To what, where: me, sack, shoulders
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Help | help | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Help | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lay | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 lay | cc |
| 5 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Help | conj |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sack | nmod:poss |
| 7 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lay | obj |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 shoulders | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 10 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lay | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Help | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | imperative | you not said here | me | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | lay | infinitive | you not said here | my sack | my shoulders | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sack=Theme upon shoulder=Destination |
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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