The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 74
“If you will promise never to marry I will drive them all back into the nut again.”
Who acts: you, Eisenkopf · What happens: promise, not marry, drive · To what, where: pigs, nut · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Eisenkopf), 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 promise | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 promise | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 promise | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 promise | aux |
| 5 | promise | promise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 marry | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 marry | mark |
| 8 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 promise | xcomp |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 drive | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 drive | aux |
| 11 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 marry | ccomp |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 drive | obj |
| 13 | all | all | ADV | _ | 14 back | advmod |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 drive | advmod |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 nut | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 nut | det |
| 17 | nut | nut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drive | obl |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 drive | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 promise | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 promise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise in a quote | future | you | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not marry not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | drive in a quote | future | Eisenkopf | pigs = pig | the nut | again | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme into nut=Trajectory |
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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