The Green Fairy Book, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, sentence 30
But I’ll help you to get back into your master’s favour, only you must first help me in my own troubles.’
Who acts: I, you, master, my · What happens: help, get back, favour, trouble · To what, where: you, favour, me, own troubles
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The War of the Wolf and the Fox. 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, master, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 help | cc |
| 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 | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 help | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 get | mark |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 help | xcomp |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 get | advmod |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 favour | case |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 master | nmod:poss |
| 11 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 favour | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 master | case |
| 13 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 get | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 help | punct |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 help | advmod |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 help | nsubj |
| 17 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 help | aux |
| 18 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 help | advmod |
| 19 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 get | conj |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 help | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 troubles | case |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 troubles | nmod:poss |
| 23 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 troubles | amod |
| 24 | troubles | trouble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 help | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 help | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | future | I | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get back | to-infinitive | you not said here | your master's favour | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into favour=Destination | ||||
| 3 | help | must | you | me | my own troubles | first property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | ||
| 4 | favour | your master | nom favour «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | trouble | my | nom trouble «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 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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