The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 48
Lend thy aid ‘gainst her who sinned!
Who acts: you, aid · What happens: lend, gainst, sin · To what, where: aid, sun
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 (you, aid), 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 | Lend | lend | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 aid | nmod:poss |
| 3 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Lend | obj |
| 4 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 gainst | punct |
| 5 | gainst | gainst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 aid | acl:relcl |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gainst | obj |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 sinned | nsubj |
| 8 | sinned | sin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gainst | ccomp |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lend | imperative | you not said here | thy aid | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aid=Theme | ||||
| 2 | gainst | past | thy aid not said here | sun | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sin | past | vn rebel-71.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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