The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 37

This pleased Tiidu very much, though he knew that he had really done nothing to deserve it, and in return he delighted them by tunes on his pipes.

Who acts: pleased Tiidu, Tiidu · What happens: know, do, deserve, delight · To what, where: nothing, rest, lives, return

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pleased Tiidu, Tiidu), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 Tiidu	nsubj
2	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Tiidu	amod
3	Tiidu	Tiidu	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 knew	nsubj
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADV	_	3 Tiidu	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 knew	punct
7	though	though	SCONJ	_	9 knew	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 knew	nsubj
9	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 done	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 done	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 done	aux
13	really	really	ADV	_	14 done	advmod
14	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 knew	advcl
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 done	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 deserve	mark
17	deserve	deserve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 nothing	acl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 deserve	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 delighted	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 delighted	cc
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 return	case
22	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 delighted	obl
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 delighted	nsubj
24	delighted	delight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 knew	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 delighted	obj
26	by	by	ADP	_	27 tunes	case
27	tunes	tune	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 delighted	obl
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 pipes	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 pipes	nmod:poss
30	pipes	pipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 delighted	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	past	pleased Tiidu				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	do	past · perfect	Tiidu	nothing			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
3	deserve	to-infinitive	Tiidu not said here	rest			tree rules
4	delight	past	Tiidu	lives = life	return	by tunes; on Tiidu's pipes	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer

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 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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