The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 117

‘I have almost paid my debt,’ went on the little man, ‘but as you have suffered already, I will do more, and give you a piece of information.

Who acts: I, you · What happens: pay, go, suffer, give · To what, where: debt, piece, you

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs. 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 paid	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 paid	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 paid	aux
4	almost	almost	ADV	_	5 paid	advmod
5	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 went	advcl
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 debt	nmod:poss
7	debt	debt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 paid	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 paid	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	on	on	ADP	_	14 man	case
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	10 went	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 give	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	30 give	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 do	cc
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 suffered	mark
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 suffered	nsubj
20	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 suffered	aux
21	suffered	suffer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 do	advcl
22	already	already	ADV	_	21 suffered	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 suffered	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 do	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 do	aux
26	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	30 give	aux
27	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 do	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 give	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 give	cc
30	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 went	conj
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 give	iobj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 piece	det
33	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 give	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 information	case
35	information	information	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 piece	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	pay	present · perfect	I	my debt		almost property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent debt=Asset
2	go	past				on the little man	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on man=Location
3	suffer	present · perfect	you				vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	give	infinitive · do-support		a piece of information	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient piece=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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