The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 19
I can help you to understand it if you will stay with me a few days.’
Who acts: I, you · What happens: help, understand, stay · To what, where: you, language
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 help | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 help | aux |
| 3 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 help | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 understand | mark |
| 6 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 help | xcomp |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 understand | obj |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 stay | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 stay | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 stay | aux |
| 11 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 understand | advcl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 me | case |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 stay | obl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 days | det |
| 15 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 days | amod |
| 16 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stay | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 help | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | can | I | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | understand | to-infinitive | you not said here | language | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | stay a condition, not said to happen | future | you | day | with me | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with i=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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