The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1, sentence 31

As to your present, though I am paid for my trouble by the seller, I shall receive it as a favor, and be very much obliged to you, and thankful.”

Who acts: I, seller · What happens: pay, receive, oblige, trouble · To what, where: I, present, you, my

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, seller), 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	As	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	4 present	case
2	to	to	ADP	_	1 As	fixed
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 present	nmod:poss
4	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 receive	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 paid	punct
6	though	though	SCONJ	_	9 paid	mark
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 paid	nsubj
8	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 paid	aux:pass
9	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 present	acl:relcl
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 trouble	case
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 trouble	nmod:poss
12	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 paid	obl
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 seller	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 seller	det
15	seller	seller	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 trouble	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 present	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 receive	nsubj
18	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 receive	aux
19	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 receive	obj
21	as	as	ADP	_	23 favor	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 favor	det
23	favor	favor	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 receive	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 obliged	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 obliged	cc
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 obliged	aux:pass
27	very	very	ADV	_	28 much	advmod
28	much	much	ADV	_	29 obliged	advmod
29	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 receive	conj
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 you	case
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 obliged	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 thankful	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 thankful	cc
34	thankful	thankful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 receive	parataxis
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 receive	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 receive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	pay	present · passive		I		for my trouble by the seller	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Asset for trouble=Theme
2	receive	shall	I	present		as your present; as a favor	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	oblige	infinitive · passive	I not said here		you		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»
4	trouble		the seller	my			nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=patient by=agent

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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