Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 108

"Then promise me your first-born child if you become Queen," said he.

Who acts: you, child · What happens: promise, bear, become, say · To what, where: first born child, child · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Little Men in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, child), 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 promise	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 promise	advmod
3	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 promise	obj
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 child	nmod:poss
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 child	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 first	punct
8	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 child	amod
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 promise	obj
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 become	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 become	nsubj
12	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 promise	advcl
13	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 become	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 promise	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 promise	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	promise speech: promise in a quote	infinitive		your first born child	child	then	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal child=Theme
2	bear in a quote	participle					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	become a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	say speech: assert	past	child				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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