Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, V. on the Way Home, sentence 25
"You help me," cried Rudy; "I do not yet require a woman to help me to climb."
Who acts: You, Rudy · What happens: help, cry, not require, climb · To what, where: Rudy, woman · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, V. on the Way Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Rudy), 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 | _ | 3 help | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 help | nsubj |
| 3 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 help | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 help | conj |
| 8 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 require | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 require | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 require | nsubj |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 require | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 require | advmod |
| 14 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 15 require | advmod |
| 15 | require | require | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 help | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 woman | det |
| 17 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 require | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 help | mark |
| 19 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 require | advcl |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 help | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 climb | mark |
| 22 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 help | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 help | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help in a quote | present | You | Rudy | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Rudy | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not require in a quote | present · do-support | Rudy | a woman | yet | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme woman=Precondition | |||
| 4 | help in a quote | to-infinitive | Rudy not said here | Rudy | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | climb in a quote | to-infinitive | Rudy not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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