The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 56
“Oh, you must not vex yourself about that, for I can help you,” replied the bird.
Who acts: you, bird · What happens: not vex, help, reply · To what, where: yourself, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, bird), 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 | _ | 7 vex | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 vex | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 vex | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 vex | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 vex | advmod |
| 7 | vex | vex | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 replied | ccomp |
| 8 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 vex | obj |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 that | case |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 vex | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 help | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 help | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 help | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 help | aux |
| 15 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 vex | parataxis |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 help | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 help | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 vex | punct |
| 19 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bird | det |
| 21 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 replied | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not vex in a quote | must | you | yourself | about that | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus yourself=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | help in a quote | can | the bird = bird | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the bird | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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