Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tuk, sentence 9

Be a good boy, Tuk, and run across and help the old woman, won't you?"

Who acts: good boy · What happens: be, run, help · To what, where: good boy, old woman

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good boy), 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	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 boy	cop
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 boy	det
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 boy	amod
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 run	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Tuk	punct
6	Tuk	Tuk	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 boy	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 run	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 run	cc
9	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	across	across	ADV	_	9 run	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 help	cc
12	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 run	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 woman	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 woman	amod
15	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 help	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wo	punct
17	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 run	parataxis
18	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 wo	advmod
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 wo	nsubj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 run	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 run	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	infinitive		a good boy			tree rules
2	run	infinitive	a good boy			across property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	help	infinitive	a good boy not said here		the old woman		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=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: «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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