The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 133

'Oh! father, tell me how I can repay the jackal for the way he has served me!'

Who acts: father, I, Jackal · What happens: tell, repay, serve · To what, where: me, jackal · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, I, Jackal), 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	_	6 tell	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 father	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 father	punct
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 repay	advmod
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 repay	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 repay	aux
11	repay	repay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tell	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 jackal	det
13	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 repay	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 way	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 way	det
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 repay	obl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 served	nsubj
18	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 served	aux
19	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 way	acl:relcl
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 served	obj
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	infinitive	father		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	repay	can	I	the jackal		for the way	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent jackal=Asset for way=Theme
3	serve	present · perfect	Jackal	me			vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Attribute

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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