The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 75
‘All right,’ said the smith, ‘make haste to help me on with my black clothes.’
Who acts: haste · What happens: say, make, help on · To what, where: smith, haste, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (haste), 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 said | ccomp |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 All | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 All | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 All | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 smith | det |
| 8 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 make | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 make | punct |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | conj |
| 12 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 make | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 help | mark |
| 14 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 make | xcomp |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 help | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 help | compound:prt |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 clothes | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 clothes | amod |
| 20 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 14 help | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the smith | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent smith=Topic | |||||
| 2 | make | infinitive | haste | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | help on | to-infinitive | haste not said here | me | with my black clothes | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary with clothes=Theme |
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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