The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 22

‘Oh! who will thank me for my song, Reward my simple lay?

Who acts: my · What happens: thank, reward, lay, sing · To what, where: me, simple

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lute Player. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	_	6 thank	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 thank	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 thank	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 thank	aux
6	thank	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 thank	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 song	case
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 song	nmod:poss
10	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thank	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Reward	punct
12	Reward	reward	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 thank	parataxis
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 simple	nmod:poss
14	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Reward	obj
15	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 Reward	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 thank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	future			me	for my song	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent i=Theme for song=Attribute
2	reward	infinitive		my simple			vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent simple=Recipient
3	lay	infinitive					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	sing		my				nom song «communication intransitive»: 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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