English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring, sentence 9
“If that's your trouble, I can help you.
Who acts: that, Baron · What happens: be, help · To what, where: trouble, you
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Fish and the Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, Baron), 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 | _ | 10 help | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 trouble | mark |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 trouble | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 trouble | cop |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 trouble | nmod:poss |
| 6 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 help | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 trouble | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 help | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 help | aux |
| 10 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 help | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | that | your trouble | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | help in a quote | can | the Baron = baron | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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