The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 153
‘I am no angel,’ said the girl, and helped the Priest out of the sack.
Who acts: I, angel · What happens: be, say, help · To what, where: angel, Priest, sack · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, angel), 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 angel | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 angel | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 angel | cop |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 angel | det |
| 5 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 angel | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 angel | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 girl | det |
| 10 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 helped | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 helped | cc |
| 13 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Priest | det |
| 15 | Priest | pry | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 helped | obj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 sack | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 sack | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sack | det |
| 19 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 helped | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | no angel | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | no angel | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | help | past | no angel not said here | the Priest | the sack | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pry=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 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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