Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 62

‘Hark ye!’ said he, ‘my worthy friend, you seem a good sort of fellow, so I can’t help doing you a kind turn.

Who acts: Hark, you, I · What happens: say, seem, not help, do, sort · To what, where: good sort, you, fellow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Hans in Luck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hark, you, I), 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	_	2 Hark	punct
2	Hark	Hark	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
3	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	2 Hark	appos
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Hark	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Hark	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 he	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 friend	punct
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 friend	nmod:poss
11	worthy	worthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 friend	amod
12	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 he	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 seem	punct
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 seem	nsubj
15	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 friend	parataxis
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 sort	det
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 sort	amod
18	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seem	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 fellow	case
20	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sort	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 help	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	26 help	advmod
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 help	nsubj
24	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 help	aux
25	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 help	advmod
26	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 seem	conj
27	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 help	xcomp
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 doing	obj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 turn	det
30	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 turn	amod
31	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 doing	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Hark		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	seem	present	you	a good sort of fellow	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sort=Attribute
3	not help	can	I		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	do not said to happen	gerund	I not said here	you	tree rules
5	sort			fellow	nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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