The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 99
Tell me, I pray you, what is the matter, for perhaps I can help!”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: tell, pray, be, help · To what, where: me, you, matter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25. 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 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 pray | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 pray | nsubj |
| 5 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Tell | parataxis |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 pray | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 what | punct |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 pray | obl |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 matter | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 matter | det |
| 11 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 what | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 help | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 help | mark |
| 14 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 17 help | advmod |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 help | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 help | aux |
| 17 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 pray | conj |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 17 help | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | pray | present | I | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the matter | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | help | can | I | perhaps property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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 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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