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title: ‘Oh! who will thank me for my song, Reward my simple lay? — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Oh! who will thank me for my song, Reward my simple lay? Who acts: my. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lute Player, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 22

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

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

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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.

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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:pg641:8:22
# text = ‘Oh! who will thank me for my song, Reward my simple lay?
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	thank	thank	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Reward	reward	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obj	_	_
15	lay	lay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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 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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