The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 57
“You can give me neither help nor comfort.”
Who acts: You, neither · What happens: give, help · To what, where: help, father
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, neither), 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 | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 give | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | aux |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 give | iobj |
| 6 | neither | neither | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 help | nmod:poss |
| 7 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obj |
| 8 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 9 comfort | cc |
| 9 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 help | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | can | You | neither's help nor comfort | father | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient help=Theme | |||
| 2 | help in a quote | neither | nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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