The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 94
Yet I fancied—was I mistaken?—that you had given me a promise that you never would marry.”
Who acts: I, you · What happens: fancy, mistake, give, not marry · To what, where: I, promise, me
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, you), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 3 fancied | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 fancied | nsubj |
| 3 | fancied | fancy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 mistaken | punct |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 mistaken | aux:pass |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 mistaken | nsubj |
| 7 | mistaken | mistake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 fancied | parataxis |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 mistaken | punct |
| 9 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 given | punct |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 given | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 given | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 given | aux |
| 13 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 fancied | conj |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 given | iobj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 promise | det |
| 16 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 given | obj |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 marry | obj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 marry | nsubj |
| 19 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 21 marry | advmod |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 marry | aux |
| 21 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 promise | acl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fancied | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 fancied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fancy | past | I | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | mistake | past · passive | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | give | past · perfect | you | a promise | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient promise=Theme | |||
| 4 | not marry | would | you | a promise | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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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