The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 84

“But, my dear father, I told you I can never marry, because of the promise I gave to Eisenkopf.”

Who acts: I · What happens: tell, not marry, give · To what, where: dear father, you, promise, Eisenkopf · 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 (I), 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	_	9 told	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 father	cc
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 But	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 father	nmod:poss
5	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 father	amod
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 father	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 told	nsubj
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 told	iobj
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 marry	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 marry	aux
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 marry	advmod
14	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 told	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 promise	punct
16	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	19 promise	case
17	of	of	ADP	_	16 because	fixed
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 promise	det
19	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 marry	obj
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 gave	nsubj
21	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 promise	acl:relcl
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 Eisenkopf	case
23	Eisenkopf	Eisenkopf	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 gave	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 told	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	past	I	my dear father	you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not marry in a quote	can	I	the promise		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Patient
3	give in a quote	past	I	the promise not said here	Eisenkopf	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent promise=Theme to eisenkopf=Recipient

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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