The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 42

I have come to ask if, of your charity, you will help me in my need.’

Who acts: I, you, my · What happens: come, ask, help, need · To what, where: me, need

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, you, 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	3 come	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 come	aux
3	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 ask	mark
5	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 come	advcl
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 help	mark
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 if	punct
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 charity	case
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 charity	nmod:poss
10	charity	charity	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 help	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 charity	punct
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 help	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 help	aux
14	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ask	ccomp
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 help	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 need	case
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 need	nmod:poss
18	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 help	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	present · perfect	I				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	help a condition, not said to happen	future	you	me	my need	of your charity	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary
4	need		my				nom need «state 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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