The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 85

‘Will you help me to hold him?’ begged the farmer, going towards the chest where his wife had hidden the real sexton, who was sitting inside in a terrible fright.

Who acts: you, me, real sexton · What happens: help, hold, beg, go, hide, sit · To what, where: me, Klaus, farmer, chest, wife, terrible fright · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, me, real sexton), 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	_	4 help	punct
2	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 help	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 help	nsubj
4	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 begged	ccomp
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 help	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 hold	mark
7	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 help	xcomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hold	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 help	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 help	punct
11	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 farmer	det
13	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 begged	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 going	punct
15	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 begged	advcl
16	towards	towards	ADP	_	18 chest	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 chest	det
18	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 going	obl
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 hidden	advmod
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 wife	nmod:poss
21	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hidden	nsubj:pass
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 hidden	aux
23	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 going	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 sexton	det
25	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 sexton	amod
26	sexton	sexton	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hidden	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sitting	punct
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 sitting	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 sitting	aux
30	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 sexton	acl
31	inside	inside	ADV	_	30 sitting	advmod
32	in	in	ADP	_	35 fright	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 fright	det
34	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 fright	amod
35	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sitting	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	help	future	you	me				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	hold	to-infinitive	me not said here	Klaus				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	beg speech: request	past			the farmer			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent farmer=Recipient clause=Topic
4	go	gerund				the chest		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards chest=Initial_Location
5	hide	past · perfect · passive		Klaus's wife				tree rules
6	sit	past · progressive	the real sexton			a terrible fright	inside property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in fright=Location

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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