The Red Fairy Book, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, sentence 58

‘I am quite ready to help you, and do all I can to serve you, madam,’ he said, ‘only I beg you will be good enough to hide me from your husband, for I should not like to be eaten at all.’

Who acts: I, boy, you · What happens: be, help, do, serve, say, beg · To what, where: you, all, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, boy, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 ready	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 ready	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 ready	cop
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 ready	advmod
5	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 said	ccomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 help	mark
7	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ready	xcomp
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 help	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 do	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 do	cc
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ready	conj
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 do	obj
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 can	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 all	acl:relcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 serve	mark
16	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 do	advcl
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 serve	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 madam	punct
19	madam	madam	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 do	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ready	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 ready	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 said	nsubj
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct
25	‘	'	PUNCT	_	28 beg	punct
26	only	only	ADV	_	28 beg	advmod
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 beg	nsubj
28	beg	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 said	ccomp
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 good	nsubj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 good	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 good	cop
32	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 beg	ccomp
33	enough	enough	ADV	_	32 good	advmod
34	to	to	PART	_	35 hide	mark
35	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 good	advcl
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 hide	obj
37	from	from	ADP	_	39 husband	case
38	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 husband	nmod:poss
39	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 hide	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 like	punct
41	for	for	SCONJ	_	45 like	mark
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 like	nsubj
43	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 like	aux
44	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	45 like	advmod
45	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 hide	conj
46	to	to	PART	_	48 eaten	mark
47	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	48 eaten	aux:pass
48	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 like	xcomp
49	at	at	ADP	_	50 all	case
50	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	48 eaten	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 good	punct
52	’	'	PUNCT	_	28 beg	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	I				ready property	tree rules
2	help	to-infinitive	I not said here		you			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary
3	do	infinitive	I not said here	all			madam obl	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality
4	serve	to-infinitive	I not said here	you				vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Attribute
5	say speech: assert	past	boy					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	beg speech: request	present	I					vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
7	is	future	you				enough, good property	tree rules
8	hide	to-infinitive	you not said here	me			from your husband	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent i=Patient from husband=Beneficiary
9	not like	should	I					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
10	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	I not said here			all		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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