The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 6
“Oh, prince, I will repay your deed of mercy,” cried the stork.
Who acts: stork · What happens: repay, cry · To what, where: deed · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (stork), 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 | _ | 8 repay | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 8 repay | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Oh | vocative |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 repay | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 repay | aux |
| 8 | repay | repay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 cried | ccomp |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 deed | nmod:poss |
| 10 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 repay | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 mercy | case |
| 12 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 deed | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 repay | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 repay | punct |
| 15 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 stork | det |
| 17 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cried | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repay in a quote | future | the stork = stork | your deed of mercy | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent deed=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the stork | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/21/6/