The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 67

I will now pay my debt and show my gratitude.

Who acts: I · What happens: pay, show · To what, where: debt, gratitude

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 (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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 pay	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 pay	aux
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 pay	advmod
4	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 debt	nmod:poss
6	debt	debt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pay	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 show	cc
8	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 pay	conj
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 gratitude	nmod:poss
10	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 show	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	future	I	my debt			now		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent debt=Asset
2	show	infinitive	I not said here	my gratitude					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent gratitude=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 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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