The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 71
‘I am really sorry for you,’ said the beggar, ‘but if you are quite determined to brave the dangers of the forest, let me at least give you a piece of advice which will help you against these monsters.
Who acts: I, you, dangers, me, advice · What happens: be, say, let, give, help · To what, where: beggar, me, piece, you, least · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1. 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, dangers, me), 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 sorry | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 sorry | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sorry | cop |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 sorry | advmod |
| 5 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 sorry | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sorry | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 sorry | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 beggar | det |
| 12 | beggar | beggar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 let | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 let | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 let | cc |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 determined | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 determined | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 determined | cop |
| 19 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 20 determined | advmod |
| 20 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 let | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 brave | mark |
| 22 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 determined | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 dangers | det |
| 24 | dangers | danger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 brave | nsubj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 forest | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 forest | det |
| 27 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 dangers | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 determined | punct |
| 29 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 30 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 let | obj |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 least | case |
| 32 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 33 give | obl |
| 33 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 let | xcomp |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 give | iobj |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 piece | det |
| 36 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 give | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 advice | case |
| 38 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 piece | nmod |
| 39 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 help | nsubj |
| 40 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 help | aux |
| 41 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 advice | acl:relcl |
| 42 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 41 help | obj |
| 43 | against | against | ADP | _ | 45 monsters | case |
| 44 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 45 monsters | det |
| 45 | monsters | monster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 help | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | for you; sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the beggar | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | you | determined property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | the dangers of the forest | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | let | infinitive | me | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | give | infinitive | me not said here | a piece of advice | you | least | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Recipient piece=Theme at least=Asset | ||
| 7 | help | future | advice | you | against this monsters | 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 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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