Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 25

Pray be kind, and aid me if you can!’

What happens: be, aid · To what, where: me

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	Pray	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 kind	cop
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 kind	cop
3	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 aid	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 aid	cc
6	aid	aid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 kind	conj
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 aid	obj
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 can	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 can	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 aid	advcl
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 kind	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 kind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive						kind property	tree rules
2	aid	infinitive			me				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary

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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