The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 66

I am the bee whose wing you healed, and would like to show my gratitude in some way.’

Who acts: I, you · What happens: be, heal, like, show · To what, where: bee, wing, gratitude

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 (I, you), 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 bee	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bee	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bee	det
4	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	6 wing	nmod:poss
6	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bee	nmod
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 healed	nsubj
8	healed	heal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wing	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 like	cc
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 like	aux
12	like	like	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 bee	parataxis
13	to	to	PART	_	14 show	mark
14	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 like	xcomp
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 show	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 way	case
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 way	det
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 show	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bee	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 bee	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	I	the bee	the bee's wing nmod	tree rules
2	heal	past	you	the bee's wing not said here		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
3	like	would				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	show not said to happen	to-infinitive		my gratitude	in some way	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent gratitude=Patient in way=Topic

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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