The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 31
'Stop and comb my hair for a little,' said the old woman, 'and I will help you to get a place.'
Who acts: old woman, I, you · What happens: stop, comb, say, help, get · To what, where: hair, you, place · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, I, 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stop | punct |
| 2 | Stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 comb | cc |
| 4 | comb | comb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Stop | conj |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hair | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 comb | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 little | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 little | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 comb | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stop | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stop | 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 | 15 woman | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 woman | amod |
| 15 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 woman | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 woman | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 help | cc |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 help | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 help | aux |
| 21 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | conj |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 help | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 get | mark |
| 24 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 help | xcomp |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 place | det |
| 26 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 get | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 help | punct |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | infinitive | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 2 | comb | infinitive | my hair | for a little | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent hair=Location for little=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the old woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | help | future | I | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | get | to-infinitive | you not said here | a place | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer place=Stimulus |
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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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