The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 12
I thank you for the kindness you have shown me, which has made me your friend for ever.
Who acts: I, you, friend · What happens: thank, show, make · To what, where: you, kindness, me
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, friend), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 thank | nsubj |
| 2 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 thank | obj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 kindness | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 kindness | det |
| 6 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thank | obl |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 shown | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 shown | aux |
| 9 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 kindness | acl:relcl |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 shown | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 made | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 made | aux |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 shown | parataxis |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 made | obj |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 friend | nmod:poss |
| 17 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obl:agent |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 ever | case |
| 19 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 made | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | present | I | you | for the kindness | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent you=Theme for kindness=Attribute | |||
| 2 | show | present · perfect | you | the kindness not said here | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||
| 3 | make | present · perfect · passive | your friend | me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary i=Product for ever=Asset |
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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