The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 68
“How can I reward you, my benefactor?” he cried.
Who acts: king · What happens: reward, cry · To what, where: you · 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 (king), 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 reward | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 reward | advmod |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 reward | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 reward | nsubj |
| 5 | reward | reward | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 cried | parataxis |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 reward | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 benefactor | punct |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 benefactor | nmod:poss |
| 9 | benefactor | benefactor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reward | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 reward | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 reward | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 cried | nsubj |
| 13 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reward in a quote | can | king | you | my benefactor obl | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | king | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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