The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 119
'You seem in pain,' said one of them, fluttering close to him, 'can we help you?'
Who acts: You, one, we · What happens: seem, say, flutter, help · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, one, we), 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 seem | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 seem | nsubj |
| 3 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 pain | case |
| 5 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seem | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 seem | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 seem | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 one | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fluttering | punct |
| 13 | fluttering | flutter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 help | csubj |
| 14 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 fluttering | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 close | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fluttering | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 fluttering | punct |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 help | aux |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 help | nsubj |
| 21 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 help | obj |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 21 help | punct |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | You | in pain | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in pain=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | one of partridges | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | flutter | gerund | close property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | help | can | we | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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: «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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