The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 18
'Good luck has befallen me, then, for you can help me to make a cap for the knight's daughter.'
Who acts: you, me · What happens: befall, help, make · To what, where: Good luck, me, cap
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, me), 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 | _ | 5 befallen | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 luck | amod |
| 3 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 befallen | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 befallen | aux |
| 5 | befallen | befall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 help | advcl |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 befallen | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 then | punct |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 befallen | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 help | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 help | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 help | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 help | aux |
| 13 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 help | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 make | mark |
| 16 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 help | xcomp |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 cap | det |
| 18 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 make | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 daughter | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 knight | det |
| 21 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 knight | case |
| 23 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 make | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 help | punct |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | befall | present · perfect · passive | Good luck | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | help | can | you | me | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | me not said here | a cap | for the knight's daughter | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent cap=Material for daughter=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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