The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 23
‘Come and help me,’ said the King of the Ants; ‘the beetles are too big for us.
Who acts: beetles · What happens: come, help, say, be · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beetles), 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 Come | punct |
| 2 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 help | cc |
| 4 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Come | conj |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 help | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Ants | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Ants | det |
| 13 | Ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 King | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 big | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 big | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 beetles | det |
| 17 | beetles | beetle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 big | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 big | cop |
| 19 | too | too | ADV | _ | 20 big | advmod |
| 20 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | parataxis |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 us | case |
| 22 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 big | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | help | infinitive | me | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | is | present | the beetles | for us; big property | tree rules |
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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