The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 179
‘I favoured you with my love, and you repaid me with treachery and theft.
Who acts: I, you, my · What happens: favour, repay, love · To what, where: you, me
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). 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, my), 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 | _ | 3 favoured | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 favoured | nsubj |
| 3 | favoured | favour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 favoured | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 love | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 love | nmod:poss |
| 7 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 favoured | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 repaid | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 repaid | cc |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 repaid | nsubj |
| 11 | repaid | repay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 favoured | conj |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 repaid | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 treachery | case |
| 14 | treachery | treachery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 repaid | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 theft | cc |
| 16 | theft | theft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 treachery | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 favoured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | favour | past | I | you | with my love | tree rules | |||
| 2 | repay | past | you | me | with treachery and theft | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient with treachery=Theme | |||
| 3 | love | my | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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