The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 67
I have done all this for you because you were kind and merciful to me.’
Who acts: I, you · What happens: do, be · To what, where: this, me
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 done | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 done | aux |
| 3 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 this | det:predet |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 done | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 done | obl |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 kind | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 kind | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 kind | cop |
| 11 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 done | advcl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 merciful | cc |
| 13 | merciful | merciful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 kind | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 kind | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 done | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present · perfect | I | this | for you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | is | past | you | me | kind property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | be | you not said here | tree rules |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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