The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 36
And now I will repay my debt, as I promised.”
Who acts: I · What happens: repay, promise · To what, where: debt
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 repay | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 repay | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 repay | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 repay | aux |
| 5 | repay | repay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 debt | nmod:poss |
| 7 | debt | debt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 repay | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 promised | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 promised | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 promised | nsubj |
| 11 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 repay | advcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 repay | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 repay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repay | future | I | my debt | now | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent debt=Recipient | |||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | past | I | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=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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