The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 23

The King of the Snakes, then turning to the shepherd, said to him: “What reward will you choose for saving my child?”

Who acts: Snakes, King, reward · What happens: turn, say, choose, save · To what, where: snake, child · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Snakes, King, reward), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Snakes	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Snakes	det
5	Snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 King	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 turning	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 turning	advmod
8	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 Snakes	acl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 shepherd	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 shepherd	det
11	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turning	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 King	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	obl
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 choose	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 choose	punct
18	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	19 reward	det
19	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 choose	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 choose	aux
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 choose	nsubj
22	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
23	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 saving	mark
24	saving	save	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 choose	advcl
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 child	nmod:poss
26	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 saving	obj
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	22 choose	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	22 choose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	turn	gerund	the Snakes not said here			then	to the shepherd result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to shepherd=Result
2	say speech: ask	past	the King of the Snakes		snake			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	choose in a quote	future	what reward					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	save in a quote	gerund	what reward not said here	my child				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=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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