The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 27
“How can I help thee?” asked the raven.
Who acts: raven · What happens: help, ask · To what, where: thee · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (raven), 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 help | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 help | advmod |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 help | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 help | nsubj |
| 5 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 help | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 help | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 help | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 raven | det |
| 11 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help in a quote | can | the raven = raven | thee | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the raven | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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