The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 51

'I thank you for your counsel,' spake Ian Direach, 'and I will be careful to follow it.'

Who acts: I · What happens: thank, be, follow · To what, where: you, counsel

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 thank	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 thank	nsubj
3	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 thank	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 counsel	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 counsel	nmod:poss
7	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thank	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Ian	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 spake	punct
10	spake	speak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Ian	amod
11	Ian	Ian	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 thank	parataxis
12	Direach	Direach	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Ian	flat
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 thank	punct
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 thank	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 careful	cc
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 careful	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 careful	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 careful	cop
19	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thank	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 follow	mark
21	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 careful	xcomp
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 follow	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thank	punct
24	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 thank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	present	I		you	for your counsel	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent you=Theme for counsel=Attribute
2	is	future	I			careful property	tree rules
3	follow	to-infinitive	I not said here	counsel			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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