The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon and His Grandmother, sentence 56
‘Yes,’ he replied, ‘I know enough, and can help myself splendidly.’
Who acts: whale, I · What happens: reply, know, help · To what, where: myself
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon and His Grandmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whale, I), 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 | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 know | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 know | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 know | nsubj |
| 10 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 replied | parataxis |
| 11 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 10 know | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 help | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 help | cc |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 help | aux |
| 15 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 know | conj |
| 16 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 help | obj |
| 17 | splendidly | splendidly | ADV | _ | 15 help | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | whale | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | know | present | I | enough property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | help | can | I not said here | myself | splendidly property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=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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