The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 61
It is she also who permits me to show my gratitude to you by granting whatever favour you may ask of me.
Who acts: It, you · What happens: be, show, grant, ask · To what, where: gratitude, you, favour
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 permits | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 permits | cop |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 permits | nsubj |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 6 permits | advmod |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 permits | nsubj |
| 6 | permits | permit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 permits | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 show | mark |
| 9 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 permits | xcomp |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 gratitude | nmod:poss |
| 11 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 show | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 you | case |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 show | obl |
| 14 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 15 granting | mark |
| 15 | granting | grant | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 show | advcl |
| 16 | whatever | whatever | DET | PronType=Int | 17 favour | det |
| 17 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 granting | obj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 ask | nsubj |
| 19 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 ask | aux |
| 20 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 favour | acl:relcl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 me | case |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 ask | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 permits | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | permit property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | show not said to happen | to-infinitive | my gratitude | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent gratitude=Topic to you=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | grant | gerund | whatever favour | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent favour=Theme | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | may | you | whatever favour not said here | of me | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent favour=Recipient |
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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