The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 117
One good turn deserves another, you know.”
Who acts: One good turn, you · What happens: deserve, know · To what, where: another
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One good turn, you), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 turn | nummod |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 turn | amod |
| 3 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 deserves | nsubj |
| 4 | deserves | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 deserves | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 know | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 know | nsubj |
| 8 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 deserves | parataxis |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 deserves | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 deserves | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deserve | present | One good turn | another | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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