The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 47

'Oh, good uncle, help me, I pray you!' she cried, as soon as she could speak.

Who acts: good uncle, I, silence · What happens: help, pray, cry, speak · To what, where: me, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good uncle, I, silence), 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	_	7 help	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 uncle	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 uncle	amod
5	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 help	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 uncle	punct
7	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 cried	parataxis
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 help	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 pray	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 pray	nsubj
11	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 help	conj
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 pray	obj
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 help	punct
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 help	punct
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 cried	nsubj
16	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 soon	punct
18	as	as	ADV	_	19 soon	advmod
19	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 cried	advmod
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 speak	mark
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 speak	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 speak	aux
23	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 soon	advcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	help	infinitive	good uncle		me		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary
2	pray	present	I	you			tree rules
3	cry speech: express	past	silence			soon property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	speak speech: other	could	silence				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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: «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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