The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 88
But eat first, and yet once more will I help you.'
Who acts: I · What happens: eat, help · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 eat | cc |
| 2 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 2 eat | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 help | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 help | cc |
| 6 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 7 once | advmod |
| 7 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 more | advmod |
| 8 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 help | advmod |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 help | aux |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 help | nsubj |
| 11 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 eat | conj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 help | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 eat | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present | first property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | help | future | I | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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