The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 18
At last the stranger rose, and said to him: “If ever you are in trouble call me, and I will help you.
Who acts: stranger, man · What happens: rise, say, be, call, help · To what, where: last, man, trouble, stranger · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stranger, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 rose | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 stranger | det |
| 4 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rose | nsubj |
| 5 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rose | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 call | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 call | punct |
| 13 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 ever | mark |
| 14 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 18 trouble | advcl |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 trouble | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 trouble | cop |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 trouble | case |
| 18 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 call | obl |
| 19 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | parataxis |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 call | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 help | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 help | cc |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 help | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 help | aux |
| 25 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 call | conj |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 help | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the stranger | last | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at last=Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the stranger not said here | man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | man | trouble | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | call in a quote | present | the stranger = stranger | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | help in a quote | future | the stranger = stranger | man | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |
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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