The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 47

He will give a great reward to whoever will cure him and give him back the strength of his youth.”

Who acts: king, whoever · What happens: give, cure, give back · To what, where: great reward, king, strength

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 (king, whoever), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 give	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 give	aux
3	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 reward	det
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 reward	amod
6	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 give	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 whoever	case
8	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 cure	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 cure	aux
10	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 reward	acl:relcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cure	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 give	cc
13	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 cure	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 give	iobj
15	back	back	ADP	_	13 give	compound:prt
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 strength	det
17	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 give	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 youth	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 youth	nmod:poss
20	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 strength	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	give	future	king	a great reward		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reward=Theme
2	cure	future	whoever	king		vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer he=Source
3	give back	infinitive	whoever not said here	the strength of king's youth	king	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient strength=Theme

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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