The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 60
Be merciful and set me free, and I shall know how to prove my gratitude.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: be, set, know, prove · To what, where: me, gratitude · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 2 merciful | cop |
| 2 | merciful | merciful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 set | cc |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 merciful | conj |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 set | obj |
| 6 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 set | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 know | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 know | nsubj |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 know | aux |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 merciful | parataxis |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 prove | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 prove | mark |
| 14 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 know | ccomp |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 gratitude | nmod:poss |
| 16 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 prove | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 merciful | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 merciful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | imperative | you not said here | merciful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | set | infinitive | you not said here | me | free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient i=Result | |||
| 3 | know | shall | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | prove | to-infinitive | my gratitude | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gratitude=Theme |
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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