The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 117
'I will give you a new sword if you will make me a promise,' said the man once more.
Who acts: I, you, man · What happens: give, make, say · To what, where: new sword, you, promise, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. 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, 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 give | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | aux |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 said | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 give | iobj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 sword | det |
| 7 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sword | amod |
| 8 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obj |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 make | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 make | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 make | aux |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 give | advcl |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 make | obj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 promise | det |
| 15 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 make | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | nsubj |
| 21 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 22 more | advmod |
| 22 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 said | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | future | I | a new sword | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient sword=Theme | |||
| 2 | make a condition, not said to happen | future | you | a promise | me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary promise=Product | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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