The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 27

When they had cleared off every crumb the largest bird with the gayest plumage said to him: “If you are in trouble and need help say, ‘My birds, come to me!’ and we will come.”

Who acts: birds, largest bird, man, help, we · What happens: clear off, say, be, need, come · To what, where: crumb, man, trouble, help, largest bird · 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 (birds, largest bird, man, help), 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

Pragmatics

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/22/27/