The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 51
‘Come and help us,’ said their king to Jesper, ‘or we shall be completely defeated.
What happens: come, help, say, defeat · To what, where: us, king, Jesper, we · 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: 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 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur 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 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 king | nmod:poss |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Jesper | case |
| 12 | Jesper | Jesper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ‘ | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ‘ | SYM | _ | 12 Jesper | punct |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 defeated | cc |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 defeated | nsubj |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 defeated | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 defeated | aux:pass |
| 19 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 20 defeated | advmod |
| 20 | defeated | defeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 Jesper | conj |
| 21 | . | . | 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 | us | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Ants's king | Jesper | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | defeat | shall · passive | we | completely 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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