The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 34
Help yourself, and don’t trouble busy travellers.
Who acts: you · What happens: help, not do · To what, where: yourself, trouble
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Half-chick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Help | help | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 Help | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 do | cc |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Help | conj |
| 6 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 do | advmod |
| 7 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | obj |
| 8 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 travellers | amod |
| 9 | travellers | traveller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 do | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | imperative | you not said here | yourself | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | not do | infinitive | you not said here | trouble | 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 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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