The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 6
'Well, I must see if I can't help you,' answered the frog. '
Who acts: I · What happens: see, not help, answer · To what, where: you, frog
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | _ | 6 see | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 see | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 see | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 see | aux |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 help | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 help | nsubj |
| 9 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 help | aux |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 help | advmod |
| 11 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 see | advcl |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 help | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 answered | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 answered | punct |
| 15 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 see | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 frog | det |
| 17 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 answered | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | must | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | not help a condition, not said to happen | can | I | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the frog | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent frog=Eventuality |
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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