The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 70

I am the dead man who lay unburied in the robber’s inn, where you ransomed me and gave me honourable burial, and therefore I have helped you in your journey.’

Who acts: I, you, your · What happens: be, unbury, ransom, give, help, journey · To what, where: dead man, inn, me, honourable burial, you, journey

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15. 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, your), 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 man	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 man	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 unburied	nsubj
7	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 unburied	aux:pass
8	unburied	unbury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 man	acl:relcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	13 inn	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 robber	det
11	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 inn	nmod:poss
12	’s	's	PART	_	11 robber	case
13	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 unburied	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ransomed	punct
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 ransomed	advmod
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 ransomed	nsubj
17	ransomed	ransom	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 inn	acl:relcl
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 ransomed	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 gave	cc
20	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 ransomed	conj
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 gave	iobj
22	honourable	honourable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 burial	amod
23	burial	burial	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gave	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 helped	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 helped	cc
26	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	29 helped	advmod
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 helped	nsubj
28	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 helped	aux
29	helped	help	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 man	acl
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 helped	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 journey	case
32	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 journey	nmod:poss
33	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 helped	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 man	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	I	the dead man				tree rules
2	unbury	past · passive		the dead man		the robber's inn		tree rules
3	ransom	past	you	me				tree rules
4	give	past	you not said here	honourable burial	me			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient burial=Theme
5	help	present · perfect	I	the dead man not said here	you	your journey	therefore property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary
6	journey		your					nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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