The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 84

‘That’s all right,’ said Esben; ‘give me a sack of malt, and it is not quite impossible that I may be able to help you.’

Who acts: That, Esben, sack, I · What happens: be, say, give, not be, help · To what, where: sack, me, 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 (That, Esben, sack, 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	_	5 right	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 right	nsubj
3	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 right	cop
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 right	advmod
5	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 right	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 right	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Esben	Esben	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 give	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 give	punct
12	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 give	iobj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 sack	det
15	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 give	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 malt	case
17	malt	malt	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sack	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 impossible	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 impossible	cc
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 impossible	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 impossible	cop
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 impossible	advmod
23	quite	quite	ADV	_	24 impossible	advmod
24	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 give	parataxis
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 able	mark
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 able	nsubj
27	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 able	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 able	cop
29	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 impossible	advcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 help	mark
31	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 able	xcomp
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 help	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 give	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	That			all, right property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Esben				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	give	infinitive		a sack of malt	me		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient sack=Theme
4	not is	present	sack			impossible property	tree rules
5	is	may	I			able property	tree rules
6	help	to-infinitive	I not said here		you		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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