The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 71

'If I tell you, will you promise me that you will bring me this jar full of the many- coloured water from the spring in the court- yard of the castle?' asked she. '

Who acts: I, you · What happens: tell, promise, bring, ask · To what, where: you, me, jar, castle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. 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	_	9 promise	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 tell	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 promise	advcl
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 promise	aux
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 promise	nsubj
9	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 asked	ccomp
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 promise	iobj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 bring	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 bring	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 bring	aux
14	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 promise	advcl
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 bring	obj
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 jar	det
17	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bring	obj
18	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 jar	amod
19	of	of	ADP	_	24 water	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 water	det
21	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 coloured	amod
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 many	punct
23	coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 water	amod
24	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 full	obl
25	from	from	ADP	_	27 spring	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 spring	det
27	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bring	obl
28	in	in	ADP	_	32 yard	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 yard	det
30	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 yard	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 court	punct
32	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bring	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 castle	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 castle	det
35	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 yard	nmod
36	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 promise	punct
37	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 promise	punct
38	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 asked	iobj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	38 asked	punct
41	'	'	PUNCT	_	38 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	present	I		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	promise speech: promise	future	you		me			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	bring	future	you	this jar	me	spring	in the court yard of the castle	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination jar=Theme
4	ask speech: ask	past			castle			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic

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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