The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 113

‘You laughed at me when I told you that some day I might do you a good turn.

Who acts: You, I · What happens: laugh, tell, do · To what, where: you, good turn · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I), 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 laughed	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 laughed	nsubj
3	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 me	case
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 laughed	obl
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 told	advmod
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 told	nsubj
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laughed	advcl
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 told	iobj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 do	mark
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 do	obl:unmarked
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 do	nsubj
14	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 do	aux
15	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 told	xcomp
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 do	iobj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 turn	det
18	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 turn	amod
19	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 do	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	You				at me	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	I		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
3	do not said to happen	might	I	a good turn	you	day		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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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