The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 21

'I will help you if I can,' said Ian; 'but keep the gold and silver for yourself, and lock me into the smithy to-night, and I will work my spells.'

Who acts: I, Ian, my · What happens: help, say, keep, lock, work, spell · To what, where: you, gold, me, smithy, spells · Speech: someone speaks here

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, Ian, my), 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	_	4 help	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 help	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 help	aux
4	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 help	obj
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 can	mark
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 can	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 help	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 help	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 help	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 help	parataxis
12	Ian	Ian	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 help	punct
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 help	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 keep	cc
16	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 help	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 gold	det
18	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 keep	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 silver	cc
20	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 gold	conj
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 yourself	case
22	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 keep	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 lock	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 lock	cc
25	lock	lock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 help	conj
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 lock	obj
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 smithy	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 smithy	det
29	smithy	smithy	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lock	obl
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 night	case
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 to	punct
32	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 smithy	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 work	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 work	cc
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 work	nsubj
36	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 work	aux
37	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 help	conj
38	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 spells	nmod:poss
39	spells	spell	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 work	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 help	punct
41	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 help	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	help	future	I		you			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary
2	say speech: assert	past	Ian					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	keep	infinitive	I not said here	the gold and silver			for yourself	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme
4	lock	infinitive	I not said here	me		the smithy to night		vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
5	work	future	I	my spells				vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent spell=Material
6	spell		my					nom spell «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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