The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 41

‘Help you, indeed!’ answered Medio Pollito.

What happens: help, answer · To what, where: you, Medio · Speech: someone speaks here

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: 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	_	2 Help	punct
2	Help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 answered	ccomp
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Help	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Help	punct
5	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	2 Help	advmod
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Help	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Help	punct
8	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Medio	Medio	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 answered	obj
10	Pollito	Pollito	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Medio	flat
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	infinitive			you			indeed property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary
2	answer speech: assert	past			Medio				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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