The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 23

And when this old man had finished he said, like the first: “If you ever want help in the smallest thing call to me.

Who acts: old man, man, you · What happens: finish, say, want · To what, where: smallest thing call, help · 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 (old man, man, you), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 finished	advmod
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 man	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 finished	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 finished	aux
7	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 said	advcl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 first	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 first	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 first	det
13	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 said	ccomp
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 call	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 call	punct
16	If	if	SCONJ	_	19 want	mark
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 want	nsubj
18	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	19 want	advmod
19	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 call	advcl
20	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 want	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	25 call	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 call	det
23	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 call	amod
24	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 call	compound
25	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obl
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 me	case
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 call	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	finish	past · perfect	this old man				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	past	man		the smallest thing call to me		vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in call=Manner
3	want a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you	help		ever	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=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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