The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 17

‘Old man, I am grateful, indeed, for the chance you have given me, and there will always be a pint of my blood at your service.

Who acts: Old man, you, pint, your · What happens: be, give, service · To what, where: me

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Old man, you, pint, your), 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 man	punct
2	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grateful	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 man	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 grateful	nsubj
6	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 grateful	cop
7	grateful	grateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 indeed	punct
9	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	7 grateful	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 given	punct
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 chance	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 chance	det
13	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 given	obl
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 given	nsubj
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 given	aux
16	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 grateful	advcl
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 given	iobj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 be	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 be	cc
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 be	expl
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 be	aux
22	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	23 be	advmod
23	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 grateful	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 pint	det
25	pint	pint	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 be	nsubj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 blood	case
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 blood	nmod:poss
28	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 pint	nmod
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 service	case
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 service	nmod:poss
31	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 blood	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 grateful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Old man			grateful, indeed property	tree rules
2	give	present · perfect	you	me		for the chance	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Theme for chance=Asset
3	be	future	a pint of my blood at your service		there	always property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	service		your				nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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