The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 71
“You did not choose those things by yourself, my friend,” said the ogress; “but what I have promised, that will I do.”
Who acts: You, ogress, that · What happens: not choose, say, promise, do · To what, where: things, ogress · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, ogress, 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 choose | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 choose | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 choose | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 choose | advmod |
| 5 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 6 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 things | det |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 choose | obj |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 yourself | case |
| 9 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 choose | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 friend | punct |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 friend | nmod:poss |
| 12 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 yourself | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 friend | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 choose | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ogress | det |
| 17 | ogress | ogress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 do | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 what | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 what | cc |
| 21 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 29 do | obj |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 promised | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 promised | aux |
| 24 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 what | acl:relcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 do | punct |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 do | nsubj |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 do | aux |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 do | nsubj |
| 29 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 do | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not choose in a quote | past · do-support | You | that things | by yourself | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the ogress | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | promise speech: promise in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the ogress = ogress | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | do in a quote | future | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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