The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 111
I will repay your deed of mercy,” exclaimed the grateful wild duck.
Who acts: I, wild duck · What happens: repay, exclaim · To what, where: deed, grateful wild duck
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, wild duck), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 repay | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 repay | aux |
| 3 | repay | repay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 deed | nmod:poss |
| 5 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 repay | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 mercy | case |
| 7 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 deed | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 exclaimed | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 exclaimed | punct |
| 10 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 repay | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 duck | det |
| 12 | grateful | grateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 duck | amod |
| 13 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 duck | amod |
| 14 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 exclaimed | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 repay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repay | future | I | your deed of mercy | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent deed=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express in a quote | past | the wild duck = duck not said here | the grateful wild duck | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent duck=Topic |
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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