The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 92
“I will repay you a thousand fold for that good deed.” said the man, and then he vanished.
Who acts: man · What happens: repay, say, vanish · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (man), 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 | _ | 4 repay | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 repay | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 repay | aux |
| 4 | repay | repay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 repay | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 thousand | det |
| 7 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 fold | nummod |
| 8 | fold | fold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 repay | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 deed | case |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 deed | det |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 deed | amod |
| 12 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 repay | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 repay | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 repay | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 vanished | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 vanished | cc |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 vanished | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 vanished | nsubj |
| 22 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repay in a quote | future | the man = man | you | for that good deed | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Recipient fold=Asset for deed=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | vanish | past | man | then | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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