The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 20

Promise all that he asks; it will be fulfilled somehow.'

Who acts: you, man · What happens: promise, ask, fulfil · To what, where: all, murder

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, man), 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	Promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Promise	obl
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 asks	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 asks	nsubj
5	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Promise	advcl
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 fulfilled	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fulfilled	nsubj:pass
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 fulfilled	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 fulfilled	aux:pass
10	fulfilled	fulfil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Promise	parataxis
11	somehow	somehow	ADV	_	10 fulfilled	advmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Promise	punct
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	1 Promise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	imperative	you not said here	all		vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	ask speech: ask	present	man			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fulfil	future · passive		murder	somehow property	tree rules

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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