Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 52
Nevertheless, she promised not to go away, but to continue keeping house for the shepherd.
Who acts: girl · What happens: promise, not go away, continue, keep · To what, where: house
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Sweetheart Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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 | Nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 4 promised | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 promised | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 promised | nsubj |
| 4 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 go | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 go | mark |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 promised | xcomp |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 go | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 continue | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 continue | cc |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 continue | mark |
| 12 | continue | continue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 go | conj |
| 13 | keeping | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 continue | xcomp |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 keeping | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 shepherd | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 shepherd | det |
| 17 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 keeping | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | girl | nevertheless property | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not go away not said to happen | to-infinitive | girl not said here | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | continue | to-infinitive | girl not said here | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | keep | gerund | girl not said here | house | for the shepherd | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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