The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 91
‘Now we will journey on to my family, and we will all repay you for the kindness you showed to me.’
Who acts: we, you · What happens: repay, show · To what, where: you, kindness, me
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, you), 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 journey | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 journey | advmod |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 journey | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 journey | aux |
| 5 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 family | case |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 on | fixed |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 family | nmod:poss |
| 9 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 journey | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 repay | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 repay | cc |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 repay | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 repay | aux |
| 14 | all | all | ADV | _ | 15 repay | advmod |
| 15 | repay | repay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 journey | parataxis |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 repay | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 kindness | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 kindness | det |
| 19 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 repay | obl |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 showed | nsubj |
| 21 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 kindness | acl:relcl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 me | case |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 showed | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 journey | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 journey | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repay | future | we | you | for the kindness; all property | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Asset for kindness=Theme | |||
| 2 | show | past | you | the kindness not said here | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent kindness=Topic to i=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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