Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 22
Well perhaps you can help me to solve some of his other mysteries.
Who acts: you, me · What happens: help, solve · To what, where: me, some
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, me), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 help | discourse |
| 2 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 5 help | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 help | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 help | aux |
| 5 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 help | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 solve | mark |
| 8 | solve | solve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 help | xcomp |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 solve | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 mysteries | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 mysteries | nmod:poss |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 mysteries | amod |
| 13 | mysteries | mystery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 some | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | can | you | me | perhaps property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary clause=Theme | |||
| 2 | solve | to-infinitive | me not said here | some | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Topic |
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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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