The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 85

‘I am an experienced cook, and if you will kindly take me to the head cook he may find me of some use.’

Who acts: I, you, Jem, some · What happens: be, take, find, use · To what, where: experienced cook, me, head cook · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, 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, you, Jem, some), 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	_	6 cook	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 cook	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cook	cop
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cook	det
5	experienced	experienced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cook	amod
6	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 find	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 find	cc
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 take	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 take	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 take	aux
12	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	13 take	advmod
13	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 find	advcl
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 take	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	18 cook	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 cook	det
17	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cook	compound
18	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 take	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 find	nsubj
20	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 find	aux
21	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 cook	conj
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 find	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 use	case
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 use	nsubj
25	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 find	ccomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cook	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 cook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	I	a experienced cook			tree rules
2	take a condition, not said to happen	future	you	me	the head cook	kindly property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to cook=Destination
3	find	may	Jem	me			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Attribute clause=Theme
4	use	present	some				vn eat-39.1 «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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