The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 26

But the shepherd answered him: “Sir, if you wish to reward me for saving your daughter, grant me, I pray you, to know the language of beasts.

Who acts: shepherd, king · What happens: answer, wish, reward, save, grant, pray · To what, where: king, Sir, shepherd, daughter, language · 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 (shepherd, king), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 answered	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 shepherd	det
3	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answered	nsubj
4	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 answered	obj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 Sir	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 Sir	punct
8	Sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 pray	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wish	punct
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 wish	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 wish	nsubj
12	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 Sir	acl:relcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 reward	mark
14	reward	reward	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 wish	xcomp
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 reward	obj
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 saving	mark
17	saving	save	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 reward	advcl
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 daughter	nmod:poss
19	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 saving	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 grant	punct
21	grant	grant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 reward	conj
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 grant	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 pray	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 pray	nsubj
25	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 answered	parataxis
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 pray	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 know	punct
28	to	to	PART	_	29 know	mark
29	know	know	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	25 pray	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 language	det
31	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 know	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 beasts	case
33	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 language	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the shepherd		king	tree rules
2	wish a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	king	Sir not said here		tree rules
3	reward not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	king not said here		the shepherd = shepherd	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
4	save in a quote	gerund	king not said here	your daughter		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme
5	grant in a quote	infinitive	king not said here	the shepherd = shepherd		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent i=Theme
6	pray in a quote	present	the shepherd = shepherd	Sir		tree rules
7	know in a quote	to-infinitive	the shepherd = shepherd not said here	the language of beasts		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer language=Stimulus

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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