The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 35
‘For thy kindness to me this day, I will show thee a sight.
Who acts: I · What happens: show · To what, where: sight, thee
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. 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 | _ | 12 show | punct |
| 2 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 kindness | case |
| 3 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 kindness | nmod:poss |
| 4 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 show | obl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 kindness | nmod |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 day | det |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kindness | nmod:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 kindness | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 show | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 show | aux |
| 12 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 show | iobj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 sight | det |
| 15 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 show | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | future | I | a sight | thee | for thy kindness to me this day | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient sight=Topic |
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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