The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 91
Can I be of any help to you, and thus repay your great kindness to me?’
Who acts: I · What happens: be, repay · To what, where: you, great kindness, me
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), 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 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 help | aux |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 help | nsubj |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 help | cop |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 help | case |
| 5 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 help | det |
| 6 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 help | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 repay | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 repay | cc |
| 11 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 12 repay | advmod |
| 12 | repay | repay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 help | parataxis |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 kindness | nmod:poss |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 kindness | amod |
| 15 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 repay | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 me | case |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 repay | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 repay | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 repay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | can | I | you | of any help | tree rules | |||
| 2 | repay | infinitive | your great kindness | me | thus property | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent kindness=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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