The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 24

If I can help you in any way only say the word, for I would like to give you a proof of my gratitude.’

Who acts: I, you · What happens: help, say, like, give, proof · To what, where: you, way, word, proof, gratitude · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2. 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 help	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 help	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 help	aux
4	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 say	advcl
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 help	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 way	case
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 help	obl
9	only	only	ADV	_	10 say	advmod
10	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 word	det
12	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 say	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 like	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 like	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 like	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 like	aux
17	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 say	parataxis
18	to	to	PART	_	19 give	mark
19	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 like	xcomp
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 give	iobj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 proof	det
22	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 give	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 gratitude	case
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 gratitude	nmod:poss
25	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 proof	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 like	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	help a condition, not said to happen	can	I		you	any way	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary
2	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	the word			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
3	like	would	I				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	a proof of my gratitude	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient proof=Theme
5	proof			my gratitude			nom proof «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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