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title: I will repay your deed of mercy,” exclaimed the grateful wild duck. — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I will repay your deed of mercy,” exclaimed the grateful wild duck. Who acts: I, wild duck. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 111

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I will repay your deed of mercy,” exclaimed the grateful wild duck.

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**Who acts:** I, wild duck · **What happens:** repay, exclaim · **To what, where:** deed, grateful wild duck

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, wild duck), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2435:20:111
# text = I will repay your deed of mercy,” exclaimed the grateful wild duck.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	repay	repay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	deed	deed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
10	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	grateful	grateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	duck	duck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **repay** | future | I | your deed of mercy |  |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent deed=Recipient |
| 2 | **exclaim** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | the wild duck *= duck* *not said here* | the grateful wild duck |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent duck=Topic |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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