The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 82

‘Ah, you don’t know that,’ said Esben; ‘I’ve helped you before.’

Who acts: you, Esben, I · What happens: not know, say, have, help · To what, where: 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	_	7 know	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	7 know	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 know	nsubj
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 know	aux
6	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 know	advmod
7	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 said	mark
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 that	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 know	ccomp
12	Esben	Esben	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 ’ve	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 ’ve	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 ’ve	nsubj
16	’ve	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 helped	nsubj
17	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 know	ccomp
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 helped	obj
19	before	before	ADV	_	17 helped	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 know	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	not know	present · do-support	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	Esben			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	have	present	I			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	help	past		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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