Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 33

I would fain requite thee for all thy labours."

Who acts: I · What happens: fain, requite · To what, where: thee

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of Unlucky Daniel. 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 fain	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fain	aux
3	fain	fain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	requite	requite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fain	xcomp
5	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	4 requite	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 labours	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 labours	det
8	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	9 labours	nmod:poss
9	labours	labour	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 requite	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fain	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 fain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fain	would	I						tree rules
2	requite	infinitive	I not said here	thee				for thy labours	tree rules

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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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