The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 119

But speak, and tell me what promise I am to make.'

Who acts: you, promise · What happens: speak, tell, make · To what, where: 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 (you, promise), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 speak	cc
2	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 tell	cc
5	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 speak	conj
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	8 promise	det
8	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 am	nsubj
10	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 promise	acl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 make	mark
12	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 am	xcomp
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 speak	punct
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 speak	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	speak speech: other	imperative	you not said here			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	what promise	me	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient promise=Topic
3	make	to-infinitive	what promise not said here			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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