The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 74

Tell me all about yourself so that I may help you to get what you want.”

Who acts: you, I · What happens: tell, help, get, want · To what, where: me, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	all	all	ADV	_	5 yourself	advmod
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 yourself	case
5	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	1 Tell	obl
6	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	10 help	mark
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 so	fixed
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 help	nsubj
9	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 help	aux
10	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	advcl
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 help	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 get	mark
13	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 help	xcomp
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 want	obj
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 want	nsubj
16	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 get	ccomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		me	about yourself	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent i=Recipient about yourself=Topic
2	help	may	I	you			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme
3	get	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	want	present	you				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

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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