The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 128
When Helena told her of her stepmother’s new demand she said, ‘Trust to me and I will do your task for you.
Who acts: Helena, I, stepmother, your · What happens: tell, say, do, demand, task · To what, where: Fairy, task · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Helena, I, stepmother, your), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 told | advmod |
| 2 | Helena | Helena | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | advcl |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 demand | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 stepmother | nmod:poss |
| 7 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 demand | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 stepmother | case |
| 9 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 demand | amod |
| 10 | demand | demand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | obl |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Trust | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 Trust | punct |
| 15 | Trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 me | case |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 Trust | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 do | cc |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 do | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 do | aux |
| 21 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | conj |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 task | nmod:poss |
| 23 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 do | obj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 you | case |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 do | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Helena | Fairy | of HELENA's stepmother's new demand | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | HELENA | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | do | future | I | your task | for you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | demand | HELENA's stepmother | nom demand «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | task | your | nom task «act 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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