The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 31
I gave you my help because you had pity on those that were in need.
Who acts: I, you, those, my · What happens: give, have, be, help · To what, where: help, you, pity, need
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, those, my), 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 | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | iobj |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 help | nmod:poss |
| 5 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 had | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | advcl |
| 9 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 need | case |
| 11 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 need | nsubj |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 need | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 need | cop |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 need | case |
| 15 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | I | my help | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient help=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | past | you | pity | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | those | need | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | help | my | nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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