Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Wind, sentence 201
Can't you come and help me to pitch this insolent rogue out of the house?"
Who acts: you, me · What happens: not come, help, pitch · To what, where: me, insolent rogue, house
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, me), 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 | Ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 come | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 come | nsubj |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 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 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 pitch | mark |
| 9 | pitch | pitch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 help | xcomp |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 rogue | det |
| 11 | insolent | insolent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rogue | compound |
| 12 | rogue | rogue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pitch | obj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 house | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 house | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 house | det |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pitch | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not come | can | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | help | infinitive | you not said here | me | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pitch | to-infinitive | me not said here | this insolent rogue | the house | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent rogue=Theme out house=Destination |
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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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