The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 92
Help me, if you can, and give me your counsel.”
Who acts: you · What happens: help, give · To what, where: me, counsel
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Help | help | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Help | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 can | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 can | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 can | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 1 Help | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 give | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 give | cc |
| 9 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Help | conj |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 give | iobj |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 counsel | nmod:poss |
| 12 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 give | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Help | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | imperative | you not said here | me | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | give | infinitive | you not said here | your counsel | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient counsel=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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