The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 57
I’m never far away from anywhere, and if I can possibly help you, I shall not fail to do it.’
Who acts: I · What happens: be, help, not fail, do · To what, where: you, speech
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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 ’m | nsubj |
| 2 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 away | advmod |
| 4 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 away | advmod |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 ’m | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 anywhere | case |
| 7 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 away | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fail | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 fail | cc |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 help | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 help | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 help | aux |
| 13 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 14 help | advmod |
| 14 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 fail | advcl |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 help | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 help | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 fail | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 fail | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 fail | advmod |
| 20 | fail | fail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 ’m | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 do | mark |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 fail | xcomp |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 do | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ’m | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 ’m | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | I | away property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | help a condition, not said to happen | can | I | you | possibly property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | not fail | shall | I | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | I not said here | speech | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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