The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 60
‘My kind benefactor, how can I reward you for your goodness?’
Who acts: kind benefactor · What happens: reward · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), 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 (kind benefactor), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 reward | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 benefactor | nmod:poss |
| 3 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 benefactor | amod |
| 4 | benefactor | benefactor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reward | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 reward | punct |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 reward | advmod |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 reward | aux |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 reward | nsubj |
| 9 | reward | reward | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 reward | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 goodness | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 goodness | nmod:poss |
| 13 | goodness | goodness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reward | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 reward | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 reward | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reward | can | My kind benefactor | you | for your goodness | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent you=Theme for goodness=Attribute |
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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