The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 37

“Come and help me!” she called to her sister, and after a long while they had the ball safe inside the pail.

Who acts: sister, river, girls · What happens: come, help, call, have · To what, where: river, sister, ball · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister, river, girls), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg3282:2593): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 help	cc
4	help	help	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Come	conj
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 help	obj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 called	nsubj
9	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Come	parataxis
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 sister	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 sister	nmod:poss
12	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 called	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 had	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 had	cc
15	after	after	ADP	_	18 while	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 while	det
17	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 while	amod
18	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 had	obl
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 called	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 ball	det
22	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 had	obj
23	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 had	xcomp
24	inside	inside	ADP	_	26 pail	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 pail	det
26	pail	pail	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 safe	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	imperative	river's sister = sister not said here					tree rules
2	help in a quote	infinitive	river's sister = sister not said here		river			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary
3	call speech: express	past	river		river's sister			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to sister=Recipient
4	have	past	girls = girl	the ball		while	safe property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Patient

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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