The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 142

‘I have served you well,’ said he, ‘and now for my reward.’

Who acts: I, prince, my · What happens: serve, say, reward · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, prince, my), 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	_	4 served	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 served	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 served	aux
4	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 said	ccomp
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 served	obj
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 served	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 served	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 served	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 reward	punct
12	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	17 reward	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 reward	cc
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 reward	advmod
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 reward	case
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 reward	nmod:poss
17	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	ccomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 reward	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 reward	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	serve	present · perfect	I	you	well property	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Attribute
2	say speech: assert	past	prince			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	reward		my			nom reward «event 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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