The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 34

‘Because of a service you did me last winter, which I have never forgotten,’ answered the little fellow.

Who acts: you · What happens: do, not forget, answer · To what, where: me, last winter, little fellow

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 did	punct
2	Because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	5 service	case
3	of	of	ADP	_	2 Because	fixed
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 service	det
5	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 did	obl
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 did	nsubj
7	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 did	obj
9	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 winter	amod
10	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 did	obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 forgotten	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 forgotten	nsubj:pass
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 forgotten	nsubj
14	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 forgotten	aux
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 forgotten	advmod
16	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 winter	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 answered	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 answered	punct
19	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 did	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 fellow	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 fellow	amod
22	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 answered	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	you	me		winter	because a service	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality
2	not forget	present · perfect · passive		last winter				tree rules
3	answer speech: assert	past	you not said here		the little fellow			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fellow=Eventuality

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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