The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 80

“If you will take my advice,” said he, “I promise you that you shall marry this maiden whom you love so much, and that before you are many days older.”

Who acts: you, man, that · What happens: take, say, promise, marry, love, be · To what, where: advice, you, maiden · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, man, that), 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	_	5 take	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 take	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 take	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 take	aux
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 advice	nmod:poss
7	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 take	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 take	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 promise	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 promise	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 promise	nsubj
15	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 promise	iobj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 marry	mark
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 marry	nsubj
19	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 marry	aux
20	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 promise	advcl
21	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 maiden	det
22	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 marry	obj
23	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 love	obj
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 love	nsubj
25	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 maiden	acl:relcl
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 much	advmod
27	much	much	ADV	_	25 love	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 older	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 older	cc
30	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 older	nsubj
31	before	before	SCONJ	_	36 older	mark
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 older	nsubj
33	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 older	cop
34	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 days	amod
35	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 older	obl:unmarked
36	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 promise	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	take a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	you	my advice				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	man					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	promise speech: promise in a quote	present	man		you			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent you=Theme
4	marry in a quote	shall	you	this maiden				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Patient
5	love in a quote	present	you	this maiden				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus
6	is in a quote	present	that			day	old property	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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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