The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 32

‘I am to help you,’ he answered, ‘and have nothing to do all day, except to milk the black cow dry.’

Who acts: I, maiden · What happens: help, answer, have, do · To what, where: you, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 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, maiden), 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 help	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 help	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 help	aux
4	to	to	PART	_	5 help	mark
5	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 answered	ccomp
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 help	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 help	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 help	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 answered	nsubj
10	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
12	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 have	cc
14	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 answered	ccomp
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 have	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 do	mark
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 nothing	acl
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 day	det
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 do	obl:unmarked
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 milk	punct
21	except	except	ADP	_	23 milk	case
22	to	to	PART	_	23 milk	mark
23	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 do	obl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 dry	det
25	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 dry	amod
26	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dry	compound
27	dry	dry	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 milk	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	I		you			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary
2	answer speech: assert	past	maiden					tree rules
3	have	present		nothing				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
4	do	to-infinitive		nothing not said here		day	except milk the black cow dry	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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