The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 79

‘I should like to try the treatment, as you might help me in carrying out my scheme.’

Who acts: I, you, my · What happens: like, try, help, carry out, scheme · To what, where: treatment, me, scheme

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1. 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, my), 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	_	4 like	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 like	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 like	aux
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 try	mark
6	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 like	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 treatment	det
8	treatment	treatment	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 try	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 help	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 help	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 help	nsubj
12	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 help	aux
13	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 try	conj
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 help	obj
15	in	in	SCONJ	_	16 carrying	mark
16	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 help	advcl
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 carrying	compound:prt
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 scheme	nmod:poss
19	scheme	scheme	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 carrying	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	like	should	I			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	try not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	the treatment		vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treatment=Eventuality
3	help	might	you		me	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary
4	carry out	gerund	you not said here	my scheme		vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scheme=Eventuality
5	scheme		my			nom scheme «cognition transitive»: poss=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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