The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 120
“First, sire, give me your royal word that you will not kill me when I have told you.
Who acts: sire, you, king, your · What happens: give, not kill, tell, word · To what, where: royal word, king, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sire, you, king, 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 | _ | 6 give | punct |
| 2 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 sire | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 First | punct |
| 4 | sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sire | punct |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 give | iobj |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 word | nmod:poss |
| 9 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 word | amod |
| 10 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | obj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 kill | obj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 kill | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 kill | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 kill | advmod |
| 15 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 word | acl:relcl |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 kill | obj |
| 17 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 20 told | mark |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 told | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 told | aux |
| 20 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 kill | parataxis |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 told | iobj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | infinitive | sire | your royal word | the king = king | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient word=Theme | |||
| 2 | not kill in a quote | future | you | your royal word | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus that=Experiencer i=Result | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present · perfect | the king = king | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | word in a quote | your | nom word «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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