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title: The grateful creature thanked his benefactor warmly, and promised Fe… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The grateful creature thanked his benefactor warmly, and promised Ferko to do him a good turn if he should ever need it. Who acts: grateful creature, Ferko. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 42

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The grateful creature thanked his benefactor warmly, and promised Ferko to do him a good turn if he should ever need it.

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**Who acts:** grateful creature, Ferko · **What happens:** thank, promise, do, need · **To what, where:** benefactor, Ferko, turn

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grateful creature, Ferko), 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:pg640:14:42
# text = The grateful creature thanked his benefactor warmly, and promised Ferko to do him a good turn if he should ever need it.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	grateful	grateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	thanked	thank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	benefactor	benefactor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	warmly	warmly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	Ferko	Ferko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	22	advmod	_	_
22	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past | the grateful creature | wolf's benefactor |  |  |  | warmly *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent benefactor=Theme |
| 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | the grateful creature *not said here* |  | Ferko |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent ferko=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the grateful creature *not said here* | Ferko |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **need** *a condition, not said to happen* | should | Ferko | turn |  |  | ever |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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