The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 121

‘Oh, you might at least tell me,’ said Esben; ‘I have helped you before.’

Who acts: you, Esben, I · What happens: tell, say, help · To what, where: me, least, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Esben, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	8 tell	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 tell	nsubj
5	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	aux
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 least	case
7	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 tell	obl
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 tell	iobj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	ccomp
13	Esben	Esben	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 helped	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 helped	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 helped	nsubj
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 helped	aux
18	helped	help	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 tell	advcl
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 helped	obj
20	before	before	ADV	_	18 helped	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	might	you	me	least		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	Esben				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	help	present · perfect	I	you		before property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary

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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