The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 75

With what words can I thank you?”

Who acts: words · What happens: thank · To what, where: you

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words), 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 thank	obj
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 thank	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 thank	aux
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 thank	nsubj
6	thank	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 thank	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 thank	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 thank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	can	words		you				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: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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