The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 56
But Gille Mairtean the fox would take no reward for the help he had given to Ian Direach, only his friendship.
Who acts: Gille, help · What happens: take, give · To what, where: reward, Gille, Ian
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gille, help), 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 | _ | 7 take | cc |
| 2 | Gille | Gille | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 take | nsubj |
| 3 | Mairtean | Mairtean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Gille | flat |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fox | det |
| 5 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Gille | appos |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 take | aux |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 reward | det |
| 9 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 help | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 help | det |
| 12 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 given | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 given | aux |
| 15 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 help | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Ian | case |
| 17 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 given | obl |
| 18 | Direach | Direach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Ian | flat |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 friendship | punct |
| 20 | only | only | ADV | _ | 22 friendship | advmod |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 friendship | nmod:poss |
| 22 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Ian | appos |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | would | Gille | no reward | for the help | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent reward=Theme for help=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | give | past · perfect · passive | the help not said here | Gille | Ian | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to ian=Recipient |
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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