The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 49

On the spot the queen bee was cured, and turning to Ferko she said, ‘I am most grateful for your kindness, and shall reward you some day.’

Who acts: bee, I · What happens: cure, turn, say, be, reward · To what, where: queen bee, spot, Ferko, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (bee, 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 spot	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 spot	det
3	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cured	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bee	det
5	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bee	compound
6	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cured	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cured	aux:pass
8	cured	cure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
11	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 said	csubj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 Ferko	case
13	Ferko	Ferko	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 turning	obl
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cured	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 grateful	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 grateful	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 grateful	nsubj
19	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 grateful	cop
20	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	21 grateful	advmod
21	grateful	grateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 said	parataxis
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 kindness	case
23	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 kindness	nmod:poss
24	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 grateful	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 reward	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 reward	cc
27	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 reward	aux
28	reward	reward	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 cured	parataxis
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 reward	obj
30	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	31 day	det
31	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 reward	obl:unmarked
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 cured	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 cured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cure	past · passive		the queen bee		the spot			vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Source
2	turn	gerund			Ferko				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to ferko=Result
3	say speech: assert	past	bee						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	I					for your kindness; grateful property	tree rules
5	reward	shall			you		day		vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=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 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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