The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 88

“Promise me two things,” she said one day to the king; “one, that if you marry again, as indeed you must, you will not choose as your wife a woman from some small state or distant island, who knows nothing of the world, and will be taken up with thoughts of her grandeur.

Who acts: king, queen, you, distant island · What happens: promise, say, marry, not choose, know, take up · To what, where: two things, queen, king, woman, small state, nothing · 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 (king, queen, you, distant island), 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	_	2 Promise	punct
2	Promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Promise	iobj
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 things	nummod
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Promise	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Promise	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Promise	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Promise	parataxis
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 day	nummod
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obl:unmarked
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 king	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 king	det
14	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 one	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 one	punct
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 Promise	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 marry	punct
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 marry	mark
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 marry	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 marry	nsubj
22	marry	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Promise	parataxis
23	again	again	ADV	_	22 marry	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 choose	punct
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 must	mark
26	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	28 must	advmod
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 must	nsubj
28	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 choose	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 must	punct
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 choose	nsubj
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 choose	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 choose	advmod
33	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 marry	conj
34	as	as	ADP	_	36 wife	case
35	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 wife	nmod:poss
36	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 choose	obl
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 woman	det
38	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 choose	obj
39	from	from	ADP	_	42 state	case
40	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	42 state	det
41	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 state	amod
42	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 choose	obl
43	or	or	CCONJ	_	45 island	cc
44	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 island	amod
45	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 state	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 knows	punct
47	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 knows	nsubj
48	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 island	acl:relcl
49	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	48 knows	obj
50	of	of	ADP	_	52 world	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 world	det
52	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 nothing	nmod
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 taken	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 taken	cc
55	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 taken	aux
56	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	57 taken	aux:pass
57	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Promise	conj
58	up	up	ADP	_	57 taken	compound:prt
59	with	with	ADP	_	60 thoughts	case
60	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 taken	obl
61	of	of	ADP	_	63 grandeur	case
62	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	63 grandeur	nmod:poss
63	grandeur	grandeur	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 thoughts	nmod
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Promise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise in a quote	imperative	the king = king not said here	two things	queen				tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	queen		the king		day		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient
3	marry a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you				again		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	not choose in a quote	future	you	a woman		some small state or distant island		as your wife	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent woman=Theme from state=Source
5	know in a quote	present	distant island	nothing					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
6	take up in a quote	future · passive	you not said here					with thoughts of queen's grandeur	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»
7	think in a quote			queen's grandeur					nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=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 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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