The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 121

'That I will promise readily,' said Manus; and followed the man into his house, which was at a little distance.

Who acts: That, Manus, house · What happens: promise, say, follow, be · To what, where: man, house · 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 (That, Manus, house), 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	_	5 promise	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 promise	nsubj
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 promise	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 promise	aux
5	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
6	readily	readily	ADV	_	5 promise	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 promise	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 promise	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Manus	Manus	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 followed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 followed	cc
13	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 man	det
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 followed	obj
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 house	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 house	nmod:poss
18	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 followed	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 distance	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 distance	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 distance	cop
22	at	at	ADP	_	25 distance	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 distance	det
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 distance	amod
25	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 house	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	future	That			readily property	vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	Manus				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	follow	past	Manus not said here	the man	man's house and a little distance		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent man=Theme into house=Trajectory
4	is	past	man's house and a little distance			at a little distance	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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