The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 78
How can I thank you for having awakened me, my dear, good friend!”
Who acts: I · What happens: thank, awaken · To what, where: you, me
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 thank | advmod |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 thank | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 thank | nsubj |
| 4 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 thank | obj |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 awakened | mark |
| 7 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 awakened | aux |
| 8 | awakened | awaken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 thank | advcl |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 awakened | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dear | punct |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 dear | nmod:poss |
| 12 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thank | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 friend | punct |
| 14 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 friend | amod |
| 15 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dear | conj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 thank | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 thank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | can | I | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | awaken | gerund · perfect | I not said here | me | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location i=Theme |
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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