The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 14

“We will pay your debts,” they said.

Who acts: We, debts · What happens: pay, say · To what, where: debts · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, debts), 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	_	4 pay	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 pay	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 pay	aux
4	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 debts	nmod:poss
6	debts	debt	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pay	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 pay	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 pay	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay in a quote	future	We	your debts					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent debt=Asset
2	say speech: assert	past	debts = debt						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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