--- title: The youth thankfully accepted the magician’s offer, and said, ‘I can… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The youth thankfully accepted the magician’s offer, and said, ‘I cannot now offer you any reward for your kindness, but should my undertaking succeed your trouble shall be richly repaid.’ Who acts: youth, I, my, magician. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North( --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/5/20/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Yellow Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/) / [The Dragon of the North(2)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/5/) / 20 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 20 The youth thankfully accepted the magician’s offer, and said, ‘I cannot now offer you any reward for your kindness, but should my undertaking succeed your trouble shall be richly repaid.’ **Who acts:** youth, I, my, magician, your · **What happens:** accept, say, not offer, undertake, succeed, repay · **To what, where:** offer, reward, you, trouble · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, I, my, magician), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg640:5:20 # text = The youth thankfully accepted the magician’s offer, and said, ‘I cannot now offer you any reward for your kindness, but should my undertaking succeed your trouble shall be richly repaid.’ 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 thankfully thankfully ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 accepted accept VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 magician magician NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ’s 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 offer offer NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 13 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 17 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 18 advmod _ _ 18 offer offer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 ccomp _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 iobj _ _ 20 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 21 det _ _ 21 reward reward NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 kindness kindness NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 but but CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 undertaking undertake VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 30 succeed succeed VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 31 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 34 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 36 aux:pass _ _ 35 richly richly ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 repaid repay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **accept** | past | the youth | the magician's offer | | | | thankfully *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offer=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the youth *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **offer** | can | I | any reward | you | | now | for your kindness | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent you=Goal reward=Theme | | 4 | **undertake** | should | my | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **succeed** | infinitive | my *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **repay** | shall · passive | | your trouble | | | | richly *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 7 | **offer** | | the magician | | | | | | nom offer «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 8 | **trouble** | | your | | | | | | nom trouble «cognition 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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/5/19/) - next →: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/5/21/) - ↑ back to [The Dragon of the North(2)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/5/)