The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 16

‘It was worth your while, madam,’ says the hen-wife, ‘to pay me well for it, for the reason I prayed so on you concerns you much.’

Who acts: reason, I · What happens: be, say, pay, pray, concern · To what, where: hen wife, me, reason, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reason, I), 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	_	4 worth	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 worth	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 worth	cop
4	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 says	ccomp
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 while	nmod:poss
6	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 worth	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 madam	punct
8	madam	madam	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 while	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 worth	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 worth	punct
11	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wife	det
13	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wife	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 hen	punct
15	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 says	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 pay	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 pay	punct
18	to	to	PART	_	19 pay	mark
19	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 says	ccomp
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 pay	iobj
21	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 pay	advmod
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 pay	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 reason	punct
25	for	for	ADP	_	27 reason	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 reason	det
27	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 concerns	nsubj
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 prayed	nsubj
29	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 reason	acl:relcl
30	so	so	ADV	_	29 prayed	advmod
31	on	on	ADP	_	32 you	case
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 prayed	obl
33	concerns	concern	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 pay	parataxis
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 concerns	obj
35	much	much	ADV	_	33 concerns	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 says	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	reason			while	worth property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present		the hen wife				tree rules
3	pay	to-infinitive			me		for reason; well property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Asset for it=Theme
4	pray	past	I	the reason not said here			on you	tree rules
5	concern	present	the reason	you				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer

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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