The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 105
I shall be sufficiently repaid by knowing that you are happy.
Who acts: you · What happens: repay, know, be · To what, where: I · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | 5 repaid | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 repaid | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 repaid | aux:pass |
| 4 | sufficiently | sufficiently | ADV | _ | 5 repaid | advmod |
| 5 | repaid | repay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 7 knowing | mark |
| 7 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 repaid | advcl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 happy | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 happy | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 happy | cop |
| 11 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 knowing | ccomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 repaid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repay | shall · passive | I | sufficiently property | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | know | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | you | happy property | tree rules |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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