The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 70
But though they had solemnly promised to reveal nothing, somehow or other the tale leaked out, and before long reached the ears of the king himself.
What happens: promise, reveal, leak out, reach · To what, where: nothing, tale, ears
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 6 promised | cc |
| 2 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 4 had | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 promised | aux |
| 5 | solemnly | solemnly | ADV | _ | 4 had | advmod |
| 6 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 reveal | mark |
| 8 | reveal | reveal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 promised | xcomp |
| 9 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 reveal | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 somehow | punct |
| 11 | somehow | somehow | ADV | _ | 8 reveal | advmod |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 other | cc |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 somehow | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tale | det |
| 15 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 somehow | nsubj |
| 16 | leaked | leak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 tale | acl |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 leaked | compound:prt |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 reached | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 reached | cc |
| 20 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 22 reached | mark |
| 21 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 reached | advmod |
| 22 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 promised | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 ears | det |
| 24 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 reached | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 king | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 king | det |
| 27 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ears | nmod |
| 28 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 27 king | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past · perfect | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | reveal not said to happen | to-infinitive | nothing | somehow property | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | ||||
| 3 | leak out | participle | the tale not said here | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | |||||
| 4 | reach | past | the ears of the king tale | long property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ear=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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