More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 24

_"Well, well, if ye'll all promise to be good, I'll tell it ye again."

Who acts: ye · What happens: promise, be, tell · To what, where: story, ye · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ye), 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	_	_	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 promise	punct
3	Well	well	INTJ	_	11 promise	discourse
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Well	punct
5	well	well	INTJ	_	11 promise	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 well	punct
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 promise	mark
8	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	11 promise	nsubj
9	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 promise	aux
10	all	all	ADV	_	11 promise	advmod
11	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 _	parataxis
12	to	to	PART	_	14 good	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 good	cop
14	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 promise	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tell	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 tell	nsubj
17	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 tell	aux
18	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 good	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 tell	obj
20	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	18 tell	iobj
21	again	again	ADV	_	18 tell	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 promise	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 promise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise in a quote	future	ye				all property	vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive					good property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	future	ye	story	ye	again		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient it=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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