The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 14

After this she came often, and taught them numbers of things, and showed them many of the marvels of her beautiful kingdom, and at last one day she said to them, ‘You know that I have always been kind to you; now I think it is time you did something for me in your turn.

Who acts: Fairy, You, I, kingdom, beautiful kingdom · What happens: come, teach, show, say, know, be · To what, where: numbers, Sylvain, you, time, something, turn · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairy, You, I, kingdom), 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 this	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 came	obl
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	often	often	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 taught	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 taught	cc
8	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 taught	obj
10	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 taught	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 things	case
12	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 numbers	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 showed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 showed	cc
15	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	parataxis
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 showed	obj
17	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 showed	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 marvels	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 marvels	det
20	marvels	marvel	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 many	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 kingdom	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 kingdom	nmod:poss
23	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 kingdom	amod
24	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 marvels	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 said	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 said	cc
27	at	at	ADP	_	30 day	case
28	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 day	amod
29	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 day	compound
30	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 said	obl
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 said	nsubj
32	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 showed	conj
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 them	case
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 said	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 know	punct
36	‘	'	PUNCT	_	38 know	punct
37	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 know	nsubj
38	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 said	ccomp
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	44 kind	mark
40	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 kind	nsubj
41	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 kind	aux
42	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	44 kind	advmod
43	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	44 kind	cop
44	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 know	ccomp
45	to	to	ADP	_	46 you	case
46	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	44 kind	obl
47	;	;	PUNCT	_	50 think	punct
48	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	50 think	advmod
49	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	50 think	nsubj
50	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 time	nsubj
52	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 time	cop
53	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 think	ccomp
54	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	55 did	nsubj
55	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 time	acl:relcl
56	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	55 did	obj
57	for	for	ADP	_	58 me	case
58	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	55 did	obl
59	in	in	ADP	_	61 turn	case
60	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 turn	nmod:poss
61	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 did	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Fairy				after this	often property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	teach speech: other	past	Fairy not said here	numbers of things	Sylvain				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient number=Topic
3	show	past		Sylvain					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient many=Topic
4	say speech: assert	past	Fairy		Sylvain		day		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to they=Experiencer clause=Topic
5	know	present	You						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is	present · perfect	I		you			always, kind property	tree rules
7	think speech: other	present	I				now		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	is a	present	kingdom	time					tree rules
9	do	past	you	something		your turn		for me	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality
10	marvel		Fairy's beautiful kingdom						nom marvel «event intransitive»: of=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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