The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 20

The youth thankfully accepted the magician’s offer, and said, ‘I cannot now offer you any reward for your kindness, but should my undertaking succeed your trouble shall be richly repaid.’

Who acts: youth, I, my, magician, your · What happens: accept, say, not offer, undertake, succeed, repay · To what, where: offer, reward, you, trouble · 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 (youth, I, my, magician), 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	2 youth	det
2	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 accepted	nsubj
3	thankfully	thankfully	ADV	_	4 accepted	advmod
4	accepted	accept	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	8 offer	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 magician	case
8	offer	offer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 accepted	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 accepted	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 offer	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 offer	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 offer	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 offer	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 offer	advmod
17	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 offer	advmod
18	offer	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 offer	iobj
20	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	21 reward	det
21	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 offer	obj
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 kindness	case
23	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 kindness	nmod:poss
24	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 offer	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 undertaking	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 undertaking	cc
27	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 undertaking	aux
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 undertaking	nsubj
29	undertaking	undertake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 accepted	advcl
30	succeed	succeed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 undertaking	xcomp
31	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 trouble	nmod:poss
32	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 repaid	nsubj:pass
33	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 repaid	aux
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 repaid	aux:pass
35	richly	richly	ADV	_	36 repaid	advmod
36	repaid	repay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 succeed	ccomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 accepted	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 accepted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	accept	past	the youth	the magician's offer			thankfully property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offer=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the youth not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not offer	can	I	any reward	you	now	for your kindness	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent you=Goal reward=Theme
4	undertake	should	my					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	succeed	infinitive	my not said here					tree rules
6	repay	shall · passive		your trouble			richly property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
7	offer		the magician					nom offer «communication transitive»: poss=agent
8	trouble		your					nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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