The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 46

'Help me,' said the python, 'for I am Insato, King of all the Reptiles, and will reward you well!'

Who acts: you, python, I · What happens: help, say, be, reward · To what, where: me, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, python, I), 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 Help	punct
2	Help	help	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Help	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Help	punct
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Help	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Help	parataxis
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 python	det
8	python	python	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Help	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Help	punct
11	for	for	ADP	_	14 Insato	case
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 Insato	nsubj
13	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 Insato	cop
14	Insato	Insato	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Help	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 King	punct
16	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Insato	appos
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 Reptiles	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 Reptiles	det:predet
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Reptiles	det
20	Reptiles	reptile	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 King	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 reward	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 reward	cc
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 reward	aux
24	reward	reward	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Help	conj
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 reward	obj
26	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 reward	advmod
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Help	punct
28	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Help	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	help	imperative	you not said here	me		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary
2	say speech: assert	past	the python			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	I		for Insato	tree rules
4	reward	future	you not said here	you	well property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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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