The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 32
‘I have come, of your charity, to ask your help!’
Who acts: I, your · What happens: come, ask, help · To what, where: help
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 (I, your), 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 | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 come | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 charity | punct |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 charity | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 charity | nmod:poss |
| 8 | charity | charity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ask | punct |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 ask | mark |
| 11 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | parataxis |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 help | nmod:poss |
| 13 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ask | obj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 ask | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present · perfect | I | of your charity | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of charity=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | your help | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent help=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | help | your | 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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