The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 26
Still, to prevent your being anxious I will promise to do as you wish.”
Who acts: I, you · What happens: prevent, be, promise, do, wish
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 4 prevent | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Still | punct |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 prevent | mark |
| 4 | prevent | prevent | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 anxious | nmod:poss |
| 6 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 anxious | cop |
| 7 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 prevent | obj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 promise | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 promise | aux |
| 10 | promise | promise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 prevent | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 do | mark |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 promise | xcomp |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 wish | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 wish | nsubj |
| 15 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 do | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 prevent | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 prevent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prevent | to-infinitive | still | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer | |||||
| 2 | is | gerund | anxious property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | promise speech: promise | future | I | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | wish | present | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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