The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 25

But if you will swear to me by your crown and sceptre that you will give me a dinner of the food that I never grow tired of, whenever I choose to ask for it, I will enable you to reach your wife and daughter.'

Who acts: you, sceptre, I, your · What happens: swear, give, not grow, choose, ask, enable · To what, where: me, dinner, food, you, wife

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, sceptre, I, your), 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	_	5 swear	cc
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 swear	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 swear	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 swear	aux
5	swear	swear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 swear	obl
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 crown	case
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 crown	nmod:poss
10	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swear	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sceptre	cc
12	sceptre	sceptre	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 crown	conj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 give	nsubj
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 give	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 give	aux
16	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 sceptre	acl:relcl
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 give	iobj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 dinner	det
19	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 give	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 food	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 food	det
22	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dinner	nmod
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 grow	obj
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 grow	nsubj
25	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	26 grow	advmod
26	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 food	acl:relcl
27	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 grow	xcomp
28	of	of	ADP	_	27 tired	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 choose	punct
30	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	32 choose	advmod
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 choose	nsubj
32	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 grow	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 ask	mark
34	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 choose	xcomp
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 it	case
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 ask	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 enable	punct
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 enable	nsubj
39	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 enable	aux
40	enable	enable	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 swear	conj
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	40 enable	obj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 reach	mark
43	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 enable	xcomp
44	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 wife	nmod:poss
45	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 reach	obj
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 daughter	cc
47	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 wife	conj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 swear	punct
49	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 swear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	swear	future	you		me	by your crown and sceptre	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	give	future	sceptre	a dinner of the food	me		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient dinner=Theme
3	not grow	present	I	the food		tired property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location that=Theme
4	choose	present	I			whenever property	tree rules
5	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	I not said here			for lake	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	enable	future	I	you			tree rules
7	reach	to-infinitive	you not said here	your wife and daughter			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent wife=Theme
8	crown		your				nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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