The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 91

The magician was full of gratitude to his deliverer, and promised him a reward for his help if the youth would go back with him to his house.

Who acts: magician, youth · What happens: be, promise, go back, help · To what, where: reward, magician

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 (magician, youth), 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	2 magician	det
2	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 full	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 full	cop
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 gratitude	case
6	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 full	obl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 deliverer	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 deliverer	nmod:poss
9	deliverer	deliverer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gratitude	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 promised	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 promised	cc
12	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 full	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 promised	iobj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 reward	det
15	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 promised	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 help	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 help	nmod:poss
18	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 reward	nmod
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 go	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 youth	det
21	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 go	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 go	aux
23	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 promised	ccomp
24	back	back	ADV	_	23 go	advmod
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 go	obl
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 house	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 house	nmod:poss
29	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 go	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 full	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the magician			of gratitude to magician's deliverer; full property	tree rules
2	promise speech: promise	past	the magician not said here	a reward	magician	for magician's help	tree rules
3	go back a condition, not said to happen	would	the youth			with magician; to magician's house result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result
4	help		magician				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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