The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 51

'I will bring it back if you tell me what to do!' cried the little fish, who would have promised anything that was likely to carry her up to earth again.

Who acts: I, you · What happens: bring back, tell, do, cry, promise, be · To what, where: face, me, little fish, notion, earth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. 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), 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 bring	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 bring	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 bring	aux
4	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 cried	parataxis
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bring	obj
6	back	back	ADV	_	4 bring	advmod
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 tell	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 tell	nsubj
9	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bring	advcl
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 tell	iobj
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 do	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 do	mark
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 tell	ccomp
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 bring	punct
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 bring	punct
16	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 fish	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 fish	amod
19	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cried	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 promised	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 promised	nsubj:pass
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 promised	aux
23	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 promised	aux
24	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 fish	acl:relcl
25	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	24 promised	obj
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 likely	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 likely	cop
28	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 anything	acl:relcl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 carry	mark
30	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 likely	xcomp
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 carry	obj
32	up	up	ADP	_	30 carry	compound:prt
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 earth	case
34	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 carry	obl
35	again	again	ADV	_	30 carry	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring back	future	I	face					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	present	you		me				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive							vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
4	cry speech: express	past		the little fish					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Topic
5	promise speech: promise	would · perfect · passive		the little fish					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal anything=Theme
6	is	past						likely property	tree rules
7	carry up	to-infinitive		notion		earth	again		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to earth=Destination

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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