The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 101
You trusted me, and took all I had to offer in return for the food you once gave me.
Who acts: You, I · What happens: trust, take, have, offer, give · To what, where: me, all, return, food
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 trusted | nsubj |
| 2 | trusted | trust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 trusted | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 took | cc |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 trusted | conj |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 took | obj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 all | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 offer | mark |
| 11 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 had | xcomp |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 return | case |
| 13 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 offer | obl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 food | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 food | det |
| 16 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 return | nmod |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 gave | nsubj |
| 18 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 19 gave | advmod |
| 19 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 food | acl:relcl |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 gave | iobj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 trusted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trust | past | You | me | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | You not said here | all | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | past | I | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | offer | to-infinitive | I not said here | return for the food | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | give | past | you | the food not said here | me | once property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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