The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 49

But no sooner was the breath out of his body, than the queen said to herself, “To promise is one thing, and to keep is quite another.”

Who acts: queen · What happens: be, say, promise, keep · To what, where: breath, body, queen, one thing, one, another · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 breath	cc
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 sooner	det
3	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 breath	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 breath	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 breath	det
6	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	10 body	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 body	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 body	nmod:poss
10	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 breath	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
12	than	than	SCONJ	_	15 said	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 queen	det
14	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 breath	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 herself	case
17	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 said	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 promise	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 promise	punct
20	To	to	PART	_	21 promise	mark
21	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 one	cop
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 thing	nummod
24	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 promise	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 keep	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 keep	cc
27	to	to	PART	_	28 keep	mark
28	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 promise	conj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 another	cop
30	quite	quite	ADV	_	31 another	advmod
31	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	28 keep	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 promise	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 breath	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the breath		promise's body	soon property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the queen		queen			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient clause=Topic
3	promise speech: promise in a quote	to-infinitive		one thing				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
4	is a in a quote	present		one				tree rules
5	keep in a quote	to-infinitive		another				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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