Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 72

"Will you come and help me hold it?" said the farmer, going towards the chest in which his wife had hidden the sexton, who now lay inside, very much frightened.

Who acts: you, farmer, sexton · What happens: come, help, hold, say, go, hide · To what, where: farmer, lid, chest, wife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, farmer, sexton), 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	_	4 come	punct
2	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 come	nsubj
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 help	cc
6	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	conj
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 help	obj
8	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 help	xcomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hold	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 farmer	det
14	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 going	punct
16	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 said	advcl
17	towards	towards	ADP	_	19 chest	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 chest	det
19	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 going	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 which	case
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 hidden	obl
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 wife	nmod:poss
23	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hidden	nsubj:pass
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 hidden	aux
25	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 chest	acl:relcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 sexton	det
27	sexton	sexton	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hidden	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 lay	punct
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 lay	nsubj
30	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 lay	advmod
31	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 sexton	parataxis
32	inside	inside	ADV	_	31 lay	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 frightened	punct
34	very	very	ADV	_	35 much	advmod
35	much	much	ADV	_	36 frightened	advmod
36	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 lay	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	future	you					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	help in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	the farmer = farmer				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary clause=Theme
3	hold in a quote	infinitive	the farmer = farmer not said here	lid				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	say speech: ask	past	the farmer					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	go	gerund	the farmer not said here		the chest			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards chest=Initial_Location
6	hide	past · perfect · passive		farmer's wife	the chest			tree rules
7	lay	present	the sexton			now	inside property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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