The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 42

The grateful creature thanked his benefactor warmly, and promised Ferko to do him a good turn if he should ever need it.

Who acts: grateful creature, Ferko · What happens: thank, promise, do, need · To what, where: benefactor, Ferko, turn

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grateful creature, Ferko), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 creature	det
2	grateful	grateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 creature	amod
3	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thanked	nsubj
4	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 benefactor	nmod:poss
6	benefactor	benefactor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thanked	obj
7	warmly	warmly	ADV	_	4 thanked	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 promised	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 promised	cc
10	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thanked	conj
11	Ferko	Ferko	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 promised	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 do	mark
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 promised	xcomp
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 do	obj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 turn	det
16	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 turn	amod
17	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 do	obj
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 need	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 need	nsubj
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 need	aux
21	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	22 need	advmod
22	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 do	advcl
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 need	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thanked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	past	the grateful creature	wolf's benefactor			warmly property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent benefactor=Theme
2	promise speech: promise	past	the grateful creature not said here		Ferko			vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent ferko=Recipient clause=Topic
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	the grateful creature not said here	Ferko				tree rules
4	need a condition, not said to happen	should	Ferko	turn		ever		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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