Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 108
Help me now, that I may not be hanged," cried the soldier.
Who acts: you · What happens: help, not hange, cry · To what, where: me, I, soldier
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Help | help | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Help | obj |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Help | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hanged | punct |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 hanged | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 hanged | nsubj |
| 7 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 hanged | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 hanged | advmod |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 hanged | aux:pass |
| 10 | hanged | hange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Help | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cried | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 cried | punct |
| 13 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 hanged | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 soldier | det |
| 15 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cried | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | imperative | you not said here | me | now | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | not hange | may · passive | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | the soldier | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Topic |
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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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