The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 60
Then he called: “Tritill, Litill, come to my help!”
Who acts: man, my · What happens: call, come, help · To what, where: 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 (man, my), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 called | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 called | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 Tritill | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Tritill | punct |
| 6 | Tritill | Tritill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 called | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Litill | punct |
| 8 | Litill | Litill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Tritill | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 come | punct |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 Tritill | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 help | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 help | nmod:poss |
| 13 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 come | obl |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 Tritill | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Tritill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: express | past | man | then | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | infinitive | man not said here | my help | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to help=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | help in a quote | my | 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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