The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 5, sentence 11

You remember Tom promised to give him back to the Princess when they were married.

Who acts: You, Tom · What happens: remember, promise, give, marry · To what, where: Tom, beasts · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Tom), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 remember	nsubj
2	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 promised	nsubj
4	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 remember	ccomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 give	mark
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 promised	xcomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 give	iobj
8	back	back	ADV	_	6 give	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 Princess	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Princess	det
11	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 back	obl
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 married	advmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 married	nsubj:pass
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 married	aux:pass
15	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 give	advcl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 remember	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	remember	present	You			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	promise speech: promise	past	Tom			vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	Tom not said here		Tom	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	marry	past · passive		beasts = beast		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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 Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Project Gutenberg book 23661 (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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