The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 66

When his excitement had somewhat calmed down, he cried to the boy, ‘Whether you are really my son matters nothing to me; tell me, how can I repay you for what you have done for me?’

Who acts: man, you, son, I · What happens: calm down, cry, be, matter, tell, repay · To what, where: excitement, boy, son, nothing, me, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mogarzea and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, you, son, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 calmed	advmod
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 excitement	nmod:poss
3	excitement	excitement	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 calmed	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 calmed	aux
5	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	_	6 calmed	advmod
6	calmed	calm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 cried	advcl
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 calmed	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 calmed	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cried	nsubj
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 boy	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 boy	det
13	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cried	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 matters	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 matters	punct
16	Whether	whether	SCONJ	_	21 son	mark
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 son	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 son	cop
19	really	really	ADV	_	21 son	advmod
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 son	nmod:poss
21	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 matters	nsubj
22	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 cried	conj
23	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	22 matters	obj
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 me	case
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 matters	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 tell	punct
27	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 cried	conj
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 tell	iobj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 repay	punct
30	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	33 repay	advmod
31	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 repay	aux
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 repay	nsubj
33	repay	repay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 tell	conj
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 repay	obj
35	for	for	SCONJ	_	39 done	mark
36	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	39 done	obj
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 done	nsubj
38	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 done	aux
39	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 repay	advcl
40	for	for	ADP	_	41 me	case
41	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 done	obl
42	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct
43	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	calm down	past · perfect · passive		man's excitement		somewhat property	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	cry speech: express	past	man		the boy		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to boy=Recipient
3	is a	present	you	my son			tree rules
4	matter	present	my son	nothing	me		tree rules
5	tell speech: assert	infinitive	man not said here		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
6	repay	can	I		you		vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
7	do	present · perfect	you			for me	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
8	excite		man				nom excitement «feeling 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 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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