The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 78

‘It is time for you to start on your way,’ said the dog, ‘and if danger presses, call on me, and I will help you.’

Who acts: sun, you, danger, I · What happens: be, start, say, press, call, help · To what, where: time, way, dog, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, you, danger, I), 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 time	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 time	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 time	cop
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	ccomp
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 start	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 start	nsubj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 start	mark
8	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 time	acl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 way	case
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 way	nmod:poss
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 start	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 time	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 time	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 dog	det
16	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ‘	punct
18	‘	‘	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dog	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 call	cc
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 presses	mark
21	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 presses	nsubj
22	presses	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 call	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 presses	punct
24	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	conj
25	on	on	ADP	_	26 me	case
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 call	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 help	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 help	cc
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 help	nsubj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 help	aux
31	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 help	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 help	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	31 help	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	sun	time				tree rules
2	start	to-infinitive	you			your way		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	past		the dog and ‘				tree rules
4	press a condition, not said to happen	present	danger					vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
5	call	infinitive					on me	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	help	future	I		you			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary

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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