The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 68
Help yourself to what I have,’ said the young traveller.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: help, have, say · To what, where: yourself, young traveller · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 | Help | help | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 Help | obj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 what | case |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 1 Help | obl |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 have | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Help | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 traveller | det |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 traveller | amod |
| 12 | traveller | traveller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | imperative | you not said here | yourself | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | have | present | I | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the young traveller | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent traveller=Topic |
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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