The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 60
On the contrary, I will reward you handsomely if you will bind up my foot.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: reward, bind up · To what, where: you, contrary, foot
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2. 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 contrary | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 contrary | det |
| 3 | contrary | contrary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reward | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 contrary | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 reward | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 reward | aux |
| 7 | reward | reward | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 reward | obj |
| 9 | handsomely | handsomely | ADV | _ | 7 reward | advmod |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 bind | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 bind | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 bind | aux |
| 13 | bind | bind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 reward | advcl |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 bind | compound:prt |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 foot | nmod:poss |
| 16 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bind | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 reward | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reward | future | I | you | the contrary | handsomely property | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||
| 2 | bind up a condition, not said to happen | future | you | my foot | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient |
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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