The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 28
“I shall soon indeed be a dead man if you do not help me,” answered Tiidu, “for my strength is going fast.”
Who acts: you, Tiidu, strength · What happens: be, not help, answer, go · To what, where: dead man, Tiidu · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Tiidu, strength), 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 | _ | 9 man | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 shall | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 man | nsubj |
| 4 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 shall | advmod |
| 5 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 9 man | advmod |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 man | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 8 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 answered | nsubj |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 help | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 help | nsubj |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 help | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 help | advmod |
| 14 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 man | acl |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 help | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 help | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 man | punct |
| 18 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | Tiidu | Tiidu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 answered | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 going | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 going | punct |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 strength | case |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 strength | nmod:poss |
| 24 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 going | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 going | aux |
| 26 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 answered | ccomp |
| 27 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 going | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 going | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | infinitive | a dead man | indeed property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not help a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · do-support | you | a dead man not said here | Tiidu | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | Tiidu | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go in a quote | present · progressive | my strength | fast property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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