The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, sentence 5

I cannot ask Percinet to help me again, for if he really loved me he would not wait till I called him, he would come without that.’

Who acts: I, Percinet · What happens: not ask, help, love, not wait, call, come · To what, where: Percinet, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Percinet), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 ask	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 ask	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 ask	advmod
4	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	Percinet	Percinet	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 ask	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 help	mark
7	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 ask	xcomp
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 help	obj
9	again	again	ADV	_	7 help	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 wait	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 wait	mark
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 loved	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 loved	nsubj
14	really	really	ADV	_	15 loved	advmod
15	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 wait	advcl
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 loved	obj
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 wait	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 wait	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 wait	advmod
20	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 ask	conj
21	till	till	SCONJ	_	23 called	mark
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 called	nsubj
23	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 wait	advcl
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 called	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 come	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 come	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 come	aux
28	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 ask	conj
29	without	without	ADP	_	30 that	case
30	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 come	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ask	punct
32	’	'	SYM	_	4 ask	discourse

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not ask speech: ask	can	I		Percinet			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent percinet=Recipient clause=Topic
2	help not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here		me	again		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary
3	love a condition, not said to happen	past	Percinet	me				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
4	not wait	would	Percinet					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	call	past	I		Percinet			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
6	come	would	Percinet				without that	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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