Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 45

Ah! you thought you had played me a fine trick, but you never did me a better turn in all your lives.

Who acts: you · What happens: think, play, not do · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary. 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	4 thought	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 played	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 played	aux
7	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 thought	ccomp
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 played	obj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 trick	det
10	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 trick	amod
11	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 played	obl:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 did	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 did	cc
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 did	nsubj
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 did	advmod
16	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	conj
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 did	obj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 turn	det
19	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 turn	amod
20	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 did	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 lives	case
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 lives	det:predet
23	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 lives	nmod:poss
24	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 turn	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	you			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	play	past · perfect	you	me	a fine trick obl:unmarked	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	not do	past	you	me		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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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