The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 60
Koane!” cried she, “come and help me to plug up the hole.
Who acts: Koane, me · What happens: cry, come, help, plug up · To what, where: fly, me, hole
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Koane, 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 | Koane | Koane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 cried | nsubj |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Koane | punct |
| 3 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Koane | punct |
| 4 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cried | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 come | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 come | punct |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 cried | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 help | cc |
| 10 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 come | conj |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 help | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 plug | mark |
| 13 | plug | plug | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 help | xcomp |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 plug | compound:prt |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hole | det |
| 16 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 plug | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | Koane | fly | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | ||||
| 2 | come | infinitive | Koane not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | help | infinitive | Koane not said here | me | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | plug up | to-infinitive | me not said here | the hole | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hole=Destination |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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