The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 86
And when I saw you in danger of death I begged that I might help you, as you had helped me.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: see, beg, help · To what, where: you, danger, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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 | _ | 4 saw | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 begged | advcl |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 danger | case |
| 7 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 begged | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 death | case |
| 9 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 danger | nmod |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 begged | nsubj |
| 11 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 help | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 help | nsubj |
| 14 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 help | aux |
| 15 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 begged | ccomp |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 help | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 helped | punct |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 helped | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 helped | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 helped | aux |
| 21 | helped | help | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 help | advcl |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 helped | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | I | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | I | danger of death | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | help | might | I | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | help | past · perfect | you | me | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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