The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 33

If you will promise to get it back for me, why, perhaps I will leave your river alone.'

Who acts: you, I · What happens: promise, get back, leave · To what, where: stone, river

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, I), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 promise	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 promise	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 promise	aux
4	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 get	mark
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 promise	xcomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 get	obj
8	back	back	ADV	_	6 get	advmod
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 me	case
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 get	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 promise	punct
12	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 promise	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 leave	punct
14	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	17 leave	advmod
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 leave	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 leave	aux
17	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 promise	conj
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 river	nmod:poss
19	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 leave	obj
20	alone	alone	ADV	_	17 leave	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 promise	punct
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 promise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	future	you			vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	get back not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	stone	for me	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Theme for i=Beneficiary
3	leave	future	I	your river	alone, perhaps property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=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: «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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