The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 44

Can’t you come and help me?”

Who acts: you · What happens: not come, help · To what, where: me

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	Ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
2	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 come	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 come	nsubj
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 help	cc
6	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	conj
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 help	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not come	can	you						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	help	infinitive	you not said here		me				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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 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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