The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 68

Now he must tell her, and perhaps she might help him in his trouble.

Who acts: son, wife · What happens: tell, help, trouble · To what, where: wife, son, trouble · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, wife), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 tell	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 help	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 help	cc
8	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	11 help	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 help	nsubj
10	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 help	aux
11	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tell	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 help	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 trouble	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 trouble	nmod:poss
15	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 help	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	must	son	wife		now		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	help	might	wife	son	son's trouble		perhaps property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary
3	trouble		son					nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=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 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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