The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 91

‘He means to eat you, and there is only one way in which I can help you.

Who acts: instant, one way, I · What happens: mean, eat, be, help · To what, where: you, one way

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 (instant, one way, 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	_	3 means	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 eat	mark
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 means	xcomp
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 eat	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 is	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 is	cc
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 is	expl
10	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 means	conj
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 one	advmod
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 way	nummod
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 is	nsubj
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 which	case
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 help	obl
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 help	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 help	aux
18	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 way	acl:relcl
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 help	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	mean	present	instant				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive	instant not said here	you			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
3	be	present	one way			there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	help	can	I		you	one way	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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 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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