The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 35
‘But now,’ said she, ‘you must first help me to get this dead body away from here.’
Who acts: other, you, me · What happens: say, help, get · To what, where: me, dead body · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other, you, me), 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 said | cc |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 said | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 now | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 now | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 help | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 help | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 help | nsubj |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 help | aux |
| 12 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 help | advmod |
| 13 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 help | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 get | mark |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 help | xcomp |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 body | det |
| 18 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 body | amod |
| 19 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 get | obj |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 get | advmod |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 here | case |
| 22 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 away | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | other | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | help | must | you | me | first property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary clause=Theme | |||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | me not said here | this dead body | away property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer body=Stimulus |
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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