The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 91

Iwanich was so startled that he could hardly reply, but the little man continued: ‘I am most grateful to you for your kindness; what can I give you as a reward?’

Who acts: Iwanich, little man, I · What happens: startle, reply, continue, be, give · To what, where: Iwanich, you

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), 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 (Iwanich, little man, 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	Iwanich	Iwanich	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 startled	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 startled	aux:pass
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 startled	advmod
4	startled	startle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 reply	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 reply	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 reply	aux
8	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	9 reply	advmod
9	reply	reply	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 startled	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 continued	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 continued	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 continued	nsubj
15	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 startled	parataxis
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 continued	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 continued	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 you	case
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 grateful	obl
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 kindness	case
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 kindness	nmod:poss
26	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 grateful	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 give	punct
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	31 give	obj
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 give	aux
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 give	nsubj
31	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 startled	parataxis
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 give	iobj
33	as	as	ADP	_	35 reward	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 reward	det
35	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 give	obl
36	?	?	PUNCT	_	31 give	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	31 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	startle	past · passive		Iwanich			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	reply speech: assert	could	Iwanich			hardly property	vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	continue	past	the little man				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	present	I		you	for your kindness; grateful property	tree rules
5	give	can	I		you	as a reward	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient what=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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