The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 85
“Oh, one promises here and promises there, but no one ever thinks of keeping such promises.
Who acts: one · What happens: promise, think, keep · To what, where: such promises
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 (one), 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 promises | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 one | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 promises | nsubj |
| 5 | promises | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 promises | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 promises | cc |
| 8 | promises | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 promises | conj |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 promises | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 thinks | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 thinks | cc |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 one | det |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 thinks | nsubj |
| 14 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 thinks | advmod |
| 15 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 promises | conj |
| 16 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 17 keeping | mark |
| 17 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 thinks | advcl |
| 18 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 promises | amod |
| 19 | promises | promise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 keeping | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 promises | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise in a quote | present | one | here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise in a quote | present | one not said here | there | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other in a quote | present | no one | ever | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | keep in a quote | gerund | no one not said here | such promises | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme |
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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