The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 94
“Yes, I can help you,” replied he; “but first you must bring me three troughs, all exactly alike.
Who acts: prisoner, you · What happens: help, reply, bring · To what, where: you, three troughs, prisoner · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prisoner, 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 | _ | 6 help | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 help | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 help | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 help | aux |
| 6 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 replied | ccomp |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 help | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 help | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 help | punct |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 replied | nsubj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 bring | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 bring | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 bring | cc |
| 15 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 bring | advmod |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 bring | nsubj |
| 17 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 bring | aux |
| 18 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 replied | conj |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 bring | iobj |
| 20 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 troughs | nummod |
| 21 | troughs | trough | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 bring | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 alike | punct |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 alike | nsubj |
| 24 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 25 alike | advmod |
| 25 | alike | alike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 bring | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help in a quote | can | prisoner | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | prisoner | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | bring in a quote | must | you | three troughs | prisoner | first property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination trough=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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