The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 87

For, as I told you, Good deeds bear their own fruit!'

Who acts: I, Good deeds · What happens: tell, bear · To what, where: you, own fruit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Good deeds), 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	For	for	SCONJ	_	5 told	mark
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 told	mark
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 bear	advcl
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct
8	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 deeds	amod
9	deeds	deed	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 bear	nsubj
10	bear	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 fruit	nmod:poss
12	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fruit	amod
13	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bear	obj
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 bear	punct
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 bear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	I		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	bear	present	Good deeds	deeds's own fruit					vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient

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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