The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 26
‘Indeed!’ spoke the Sun. ‘Do you, rich as you are, need help?
Who acts: you · What happens: speak, do, be, need · To what, where: you, help · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 spoke | punct |
| 2 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 5 spoke | advmod |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Indeed | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Indeed | punct |
| 5 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Sun. | det |
| 7 | Sun. | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 spoke | obj |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 Do | punct |
| 9 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 spoke | advcl |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 Do | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rich | punct |
| 12 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 spoke | conj |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 are | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 are | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 rich | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 need | punct |
| 17 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 spoke | conj |
| 18 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 need | obj |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | sunday | indeed property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | do | present | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | does | present | you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | need | infinitive | help | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=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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