The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 20
'Well, I must try,' replied the man, 'or I shall be hanged on a tree; so it were a good deed to help me.'
Who acts: I, tree · What happens: try, reply, hange, be, help · To what, where: man, I, tree, good deed, me
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 (I, tree), 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 try | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 try | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 try | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 try | aux |
| 6 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 try | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 try | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 try | punct |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 hanged | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 hanged | nsubj |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 hanged | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 hanged | aux:pass |
| 18 | hanged | hange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 try | conj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 tree | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 tree | det |
| 21 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hanged | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 deed | punct |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 deed | advmod |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 deed | nsubj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 deed | cop |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 deed | det |
| 27 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 deed | amod |
| 28 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 try | parataxis |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 help | mark |
| 30 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 deed | acl |
| 31 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 help | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 try | punct |
| 33 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 try | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | must | I | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the man | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hange | shall · passive | I | a tree | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | tree | a good deed | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | help | to-infinitive | I not said here | 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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