The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 45

'I am much obliged to you,' said the cat, as the fish laid the stone on the sand, 'and to reward you, I will let your river alone.'

Who acts: fish, I · What happens: oblige, say, lay, reward, let · To what, where: I, you, cat, stone, sand, river · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fish, 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 obliged	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 obliged	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 obliged	aux:pass
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 obliged	advmod
5	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 let	advcl
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 obliged	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 obliged	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cat	det
12	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 laid	punct
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 laid	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fish	det
16	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 laid	nsubj
17	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 stone	det
19	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 laid	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 sand	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sand	det
22	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 laid	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 laid	punct
24	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 laid	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 reward	cc
26	to	to	PART	_	27 reward	mark
27	reward	reward	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	conj
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 reward	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 obliged	punct
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 let	nsubj
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 let	aux
32	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
33	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 river	nmod:poss
34	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 let	obj
35	alone	alone	ADV	_	32 let	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 let	punct
37	'	'	PUNCT	_	32 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	oblige	present · passive		I	you			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past		the cat				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cat=Topic
3	lay	past	the fish	the stone		the sand		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stone=Theme on sand=Destination
4	reward	to-infinitive			you			vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
5	let	future	I	your river			alone property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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