The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 60

The first thing that the victor did was to send for the knight to thank him for his timely help, and to ask what gift he could bestow on him in token of gratitude.

Who acts: victor, first thing, gift, knight · What happens: do, be, thank, ask, bestow, help · To what, where: first thing, knight, token · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (victor, first thing, gift, knight), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 thing	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 thing	amod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 send	nsubj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 did	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 victor	det
6	victor	victor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 did	nsubj
7	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thing	acl:relcl
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 send	cop
9	to	to	PART	_	10 send	mark
10	send	send	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 knight	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 knight	det
13	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 send	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 thank	mark
15	thank	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 send	advcl
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 thank	obj
17	for	for	ADP	_	20 help	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 help	nmod:poss
19	timely	timely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 help	amod
20	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thank	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 ask	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 ask	cc
23	to	to	PART	_	24 ask	mark
24	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 send	parataxis
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 bestow	obj
26	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bestow	nsubj
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 bestow	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 bestow	aux
29	bestow	bestow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 ask	ccomp
30	on	on	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 bestow	obl
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 token	case
33	token	token	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bestow	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 gratitude	case
35	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 token	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 send	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	the victor	the first thing				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
2	is	past	the first thing				for the knight; send property	tree rules
3	thank speech: thank	to-infinitive	the first thing not said here		knight		for knight's timely help	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for help=Attribute
4	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	bestow	could	gift			token of gratitude	on knight	tree rules
6	help		knight					nom help «act 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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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