The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 130
The man now asked her to come and help him home with the two sacks of money.
Who acts: man · What happens: ask, come, help · To what, where: cow, man
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 asked | advmod |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 asked | iobj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 come | mark |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 asked | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 help | cc |
| 9 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 come | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 help | obj |
| 11 | home | home | ADV | _ | 9 help | advmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 sacks | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sacks | det |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 sacks | nummod |
| 15 | sacks | sack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 help | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 money | case |
| 17 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sacks | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the man | cow | now | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | come not said to happen | to-infinitive | the man not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | help | infinitive | the man not said here | man | with the two sacks of money; home property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary with sack=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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