The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 28
He is very heavy; I wish you would help me to draw the sledge.”
Who acts: marten, I, you, me · What happens: be, wish, help, draw · To what, where: me, sledge · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (marten, I, you, me), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 heavy | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 heavy | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 heavy | advmod |
| 4 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 wish | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 wish | nsubj |
| 7 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 heavy | conj |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 help | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 help | aux |
| 10 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wish | ccomp |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 help | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 draw | mark |
| 13 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 help | xcomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sledge | det |
| 15 | sledge | sledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 draw | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heavy | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 heavy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | marten | heavy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wish | present | I | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | help | would | you | me | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | draw | to-infinitive | me not said here | the sledge | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sledge=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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