The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 57

‘Those who help others deserve to be helped,’ she answered; ‘your eyes are still red because that miser Barbaik has forbidden you to speak to the young man from Plover.

Who acts: Those, others, woman, eyes · What happens: help, deserve, answer, be, forbid, speak · To what, where: others, miser · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Those, others, woman, eyes), 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	_	4 help	punct
2	Those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 help	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 Those	nmod
4	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 help	obj
6	deserve	deserve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 help	xcomp
7	to	to	PART	_	9 helped	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 helped	aux:pass
9	helped	help	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 deserve	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 answered	punct
11	’	'	CCONJ	_	13 answered	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 answered	nsubj
13	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 help	parataxis
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 red	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 red	punct
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 eyes	nmod:poss
17	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 red	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 red	cop
19	still	still	ADV	_	20 red	advmod
20	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 help	parataxis
21	because	because	SCONJ	_	26 forbidden	mark
22	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 miser	det
23	miser	miser	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 forbidden	nsubj:pass
24	Barbaik	Barbaik	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 miser	appos
25	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 forbidden	aux
26	forbidden	forbid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 red	advcl
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 forbidden	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 speak	mark
29	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 forbidden	xcomp
30	to	to	ADP	_	33 man	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 man	det
32	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 man	amod
33	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 speak	obl
34	from	from	ADP	_	35 Plover	case
35	Plover	Plover	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 man	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 help	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	Those	others			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent other=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	deserve	infinitive	others not said here				tree rules
3	help	to-infinitive · passive	others not said here				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»
4	answer speech: assert	past	woman				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	your eyes		still	red property	tree rules
6	forbid	present · perfect · passive		that miser			tree rules
7	speak speech: other	to-infinitive				to the young man from Plover	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to man=Co-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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