The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 139

‘Help me now, so that I may not be hanged!’ cried the Soldier.

Who acts: Soldier · What happens: help, not hange, cry · To what, where: me, I · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Soldier), 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	_	2 Help	punct
2	Help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 cried	ccomp
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Help	obj
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Help	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hanged	punct
6	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	12 hanged	mark
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 so	fixed
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 hanged	nsubj
9	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 hanged	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 hanged	advmod
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 hanged	aux:pass
12	hanged	hange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Help	advcl
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Help	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Help	punct
15	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Soldier	det
17	Soldier	Soldier	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 cried	nsubj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	help	infinitive			me	now	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary
2	not hange	may · passive		I			tree rules
3	cry speech: express	past	the Soldier				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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