The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 146

The young man thanked the magician for his directions, and promised, should they succeed, to reward him.

Who acts: young man, men · What happens: thank, promise, succeed, reward · To what, where: magician · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, men), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thanked	nsubj
4	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 magician	det
6	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thanked	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 directions	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 directions	nmod:poss
9	directions	direction	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 thanked	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 promised	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 promised	cc
12	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thanked	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 succeed	punct
14	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 succeed	aux
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 succeed	nsubj
16	succeed	succeed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 promised	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 reward	punct
18	to	to	PART	_	19 reward	mark
19	reward	reward	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 succeed	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 reward	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thanked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	past	the young man	the magician		for magician's directions	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent magician=Theme for direction=Attribute
2	promise speech: promise	past	the young man not said here				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	succeed	should	men = man				vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	reward	to-infinitive	men = man not said here		magician		vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=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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