The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 5, sentence 23
‘I’ll help you right enough, my dear Prince,’ said the little toad; ‘just you go home, and I’ll soon follow you.’
Who acts: I, you · What happens: help, say, go, 'll, follow · To what, where: you, little toad · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 5. 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 | _ | 4 help | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 help | nsubj |
| 3 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 help | aux |
| 4 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 help | obj |
| 6 | right | right | ADV | _ | 7 enough | advmod |
| 7 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 4 help | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Prince | punct |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 Prince | nmod:poss |
| 10 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Prince | amod |
| 11 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 help | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 help | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 help | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 toad | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 toad | amod |
| 17 | toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 go | punct |
| 19 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 go | punct |
| 20 | just | just | ADV | _ | 22 go | advmod |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 go | nsubj |
| 22 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | ccomp |
| 23 | home | home | ADV | _ | 22 go | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 ’ll | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 ’ll | cc |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 ’ll | nsubj |
| 27 | ’ll | 'll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 go | parataxis |
| 28 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 follow | advmod |
| 29 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 ’ll | conj |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 follow | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | future | I | you | enough property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the little toad | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go | present | you | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | 'll | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | follow | present | I not said here | you | soon property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
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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