The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 22

‘I am quite overworked with so many folk,’ said Maie; ‘a girl to help me would not come amiss.’

Who acts: Maie, girl · What happens: overwork, say, help, not come · To what, where: I, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maie, girl), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 overworked	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 overworked	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 overworked	aux:pass
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 overworked	advmod
5	overworked	overwork	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 said	ccomp
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 folk	case
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 many	advmod
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 folk	amod
9	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 overworked	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 overworked	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 overworked	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	Maie	Maie	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 come	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 come	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 girl	det
17	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 come	nsubj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 help	mark
19	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 girl	acl
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 help	obj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 come	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 come	advmod
23	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
24	amiss	amiss	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 come	xcomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 come	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	23 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	overwork	present · passive		I		with many folk	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Maie				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	help	to-infinitive	a girl not said here		me		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary
4	not come	would	a girl			amiss property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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