The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 59

‘I am not come,’ replied Kilweh, ‘for meat and drink, but to obtain a boon, and if thou grant it me I will pay it back, and will carry thy praise to the four winds of heaven.

Who acts: I, Kilweh, thou, thy · What happens: not come, reply, obtain, grant, pay back, carry · To what, where: boon, praise, four winds, heaven · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Kilweh, thou, thy), 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 come	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 come	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 come	advmod
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 replied	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
8	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Kilweh	Kilweh	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 replied	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 meat	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 meat	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 meat	case
13	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Kilweh	appos
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 drink	cc
15	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 meat	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 obtain	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 obtain	cc
18	to	to	PART	_	19 obtain	mark
19	obtain	obtain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 replied	parataxis
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 boon	det
21	boon	boon	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 obtain	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 pay	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 pay	cc
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 grant	mark
25	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	26 grant	nsubj
26	grant	grant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 pay	advcl
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 grant	obj
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 grant	obj
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 pay	nsubj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 pay	aux
31	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 obtain	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 pay	obj
33	back	back	ADV	_	31 pay	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 carry	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 carry	cc
36	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 carry	aux
37	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 obtain	conj
38	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	39 praise	nmod:poss
39	praise	praise	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 carry	obj
40	to	to	ADP	_	43 winds	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 winds	det
42	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 winds	nummod
43	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 carry	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 heaven	case
45	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 winds	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not come	present	I			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	reply speech: assert	past	Kilweh			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	obtain	to-infinitive		a boon		vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset boon=Theme
4	grant a condition, not said to happen	present	thou	boon		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent it=Goal i=Theme
5	pay back	future	I	boon		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset
6	carry	future		thy praise	the four winds of heaven	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent praise=Theme to wind=Destination
7	praise		thy			nom praise «communication transitive»: poss=agent
8	wind			heaven		nom wind «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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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