The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 28

“I am St. James of Lizia,” said the old man, “and I have come to help you, for I have seen that you are a true friend.

Who acts: James, you · What happens: be, say, come, help, see · To what, where: James, you, true friend · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (James, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 James	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 James	cop
4	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 James	nmod:desc
5	James	James	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Lizia	case
7	Lizia	Lizia	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 James	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 James	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 James	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 man	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 come	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 come	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 come	cc
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 come	nsubj
18	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 come	aux
19	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 said	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 help	mark
21	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 come	advcl
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 help	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 seen	punct
24	for	for	SCONJ	_	27 seen	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 seen	nsubj
26	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 seen	aux
27	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 come	conj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 friend	mark
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 friend	nsubj
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 friend	cop
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 friend	det
32	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 friend	amod
33	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 seen	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	James	James		of Lizia; St. nmod:desc	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	James				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	come in a quote	present · perfect	James				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	help in a quote	to-infinitive	James not said here		you		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary
5	see in a quote	present · perfect	James				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is a in a quote	present	you	a true friend			tree rules

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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