The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 72

“I will manage to find such a child, for I am the king of the storks whose life you spared, and now I can repay you for it.”

Who acts: stork, you · What happens: manage, find, be, spare, repay · To what, where: child, life, you

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, you), 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 manage	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 manage	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 manage	aux
4	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 find	mark
6	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 manage	xcomp
7	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	9 child	det:predet
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 child	det
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 find	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 king	punct
11	for	for	ADP	_	15 king	case
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 king	nsubj
13	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 king	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 king	det
15	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 find	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 storks	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 storks	det
18	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 king	nmod
19	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	20 life	nmod:poss
20	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 storks	nmod
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 spared	nsubj
22	spared	spare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 life	acl:relcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 repay	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 repay	cc
25	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 repay	advmod
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 repay	nsubj
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 repay	aux
28	repay	repay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 manage	conj
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 repay	obj
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 repay	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 manage	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 manage	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	manage in a quote	future	the stork = stork				vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	find in a quote	to-infinitive	the stork = stork not said here	such child			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Topic
3	is in a quote	present	the stork = stork			for the king; of the storks the storks the storks's life's life	tree rules
4	spare in a quote	past	you	the storks the storks life's life's life not said here			vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent life=Asset
5	repay in a quote	can	the stork = stork	you	now	for child	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Asset for it=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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