The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 45
I was just coming after you to see if I could help you.’
Who acts: I, you · What happens: come, see, help · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30. 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), 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 | 4 coming | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 coming | aux |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 coming | advmod |
| 4 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 8 see | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 see | nsubj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 see | mark |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 coming | advcl |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 help | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 help | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 help | aux |
| 12 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 see | ccomp |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 help | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 coming | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 coming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · progressive | I | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | help a condition, not said to happen | could | I | 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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