The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 7

“Remember your promise,” answered the mother angrily, giving her a pinch which was unseen by the minister.

Who acts: mother, pinch, your · What happens: remember, answer, give, be, promise · To what, where: promise, pinch, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, pinch, your), 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 Remember	punct
2	Remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 answered	ccomp
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 promise	nmod:poss
4	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Remember	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Remember	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Remember	punct
7	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mother	det
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 answered	obj
10	angrily	angrily	ADV	_	7 answered	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 giving	punct
12	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 answered	advcl
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 giving	iobj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 pinch	det
15	pinch	pinch	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 giving	obj
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 unseen	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 unseen	cop
18	unseen	unseen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 pinch	acl:relcl
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 minister	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 minister	det
21	minister	minister	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 unseen	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	remember in a quote	infinitive		your promise			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent promise=Theme
2	answer speech: assert	past	the mother			angrily property	tree rules
3	give	gerund	the mother not said here	a pinch	daughter		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient pinch=Theme
4	is	past	a pinch			by the minister; unseen property	tree rules
5	promise in a quote		your				nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=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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