The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 112
And if you should be in danger, and need help from one who can swim a river or dive beneath a wave, call to me and I will come to you.'
Who acts: you, I · What happens: be, need, swim, dive, call, come · To what, where: danger, help, river, wave, me, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 danger | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 danger | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 danger | nsubj |
| 4 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 danger | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 danger | cop |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 danger | case |
| 7 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 need | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 need | cc |
| 10 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 danger | parataxis |
| 11 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 need | obj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 one | case |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 swim | obl |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 swim | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 swim | aux |
| 16 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 need | parataxis |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 river | det |
| 18 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 swim | obj |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 dive | cc |
| 20 | dive | dive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 swim | conj |
| 21 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 23 wave | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 wave | det |
| 23 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dive | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 call | punct |
| 25 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 swim | conj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 me | case |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 call | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 come | cc |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 come | nsubj |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 come | aux |
| 31 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 swim | conj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 you | case |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 come | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 danger | punct |
| 35 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 danger | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | should | you | danger | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | need | present | help | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme | |||||
| 3 | swim | can | a river | from one | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme river=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | dive | infinitive | a wave | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath wave=Location | |||||
| 5 | call | infinitive | me | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient | |||||
| 6 | come | future | I | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial_Location |
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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