The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 53

‘Oh! be a brother to me!’ called the fox, ‘and free me from this trap, and I will help you when you are in need.

Who acts: I, you · What happens: be, call, help · To what, where: brother, me, fox, you, need · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. 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), 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 brother	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 brother	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 brother	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 brother	det
6	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 called	parataxis
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 me	case
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 brother	nmod
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 brother	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 brother	punct
11	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fox	det
13	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 called	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ‘	punct
15	‘	‘	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fox	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 free	cc
17	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fox	conj
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 free	obj
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 trap	case
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 trap	det
21	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 free	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 help	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 help	cc
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 help	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 help	aux
26	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 called	advcl
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 help	obj
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	32 need	advmod
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 need	nsubj
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 need	cop
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 need	case
32	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 help	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	is a	infinitive		a brother	me		tree rules
2	call speech: assert	participle			the fox and ‘		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fox=Recipient
3	help	future	I		you		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary
4	is	present	you			need	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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