The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 36
One good turn deserves another, so farewell, and thank you for your supper.”
Who acts: One good turn · What happens: deserve, thank · To what, where: another, you
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. 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), 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 farewell | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 farewell | advmod |
| 8 | farewell | farewell | ADV | _ | 4 deserves | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thank | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 thank | cc |
| 11 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 deserves | parataxis |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 thank | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 supper | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 supper | nmod:poss |
| 15 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thank | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 thank | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 thank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deserve | present | One good turn | another | farewell property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | thank speech: thank | present | you | for your supper | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent you=Theme for supper=Attribute |
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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