Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 36
Be useful, and do me a service,” said he, in jest.
Who acts: man · What happens: be, do, say · To what, where: service, me, jest · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 2 useful | cop |
| 2 | useful | useful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 do | cc |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 useful | ccomp |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 do | iobj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 service | det |
| 8 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 useful | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 jest | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 jest | case |
| 15 | jest | jest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | useful property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | infinitive | a service | me | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | man | jest | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in jest=Manner |
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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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