The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 4
‘I believe you think it will help you to win Rozennik,’ laughed the old man.
Who acts: I, you, sign, Rozennik · What happens: believe, think, help, win, laugh · To what, where: you, old man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, sign, Rozennik), 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 | _ | 3 believe | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 believe | nsubj |
| 3 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 think | nsubj |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 believe | ccomp |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 help | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 help | aux |
| 8 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 think | ccomp |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 help | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 win | mark |
| 11 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 help | xcomp |
| 12 | Rozennik | Rozennik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 laughed | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Rozennik | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 laughed | nsubj |
| 15 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 win | ccomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 man | amod |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 laughed | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | present | I | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | present | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | help | future | sign | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | win | to-infinitive | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | laugh | past | Rozennik | the old man | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=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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