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The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 3

'Promise that you will give me an honourable burial, and when my body is laid in the grave go in my boat across the fiord, and take whatever you find in my house which belongs to me.

Who acts: Promise, you, house · What happens: give, lay, go, take, find, belong · To what, where: honourable burial, me, body, grave, boat, whatever

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Promise, you, house), 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

punctnsubjnsubjnsubjauxacliobjdetamodobjpunctccmarknmod:possnsubjaux:passaclcasedetoblcasenmod:possoblcasedetoblpunctccconjobjnsubjacl:relclcasenmod:possoblnsubjacl:relclcaseoblpunctroot'PUNCTPromiseNOUNthatPRONyouPRONwillAUXgiveVERBmePRONanDEThonourableADJburialNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJwhenSCONJmyPRONbodyNOUNisAUXlaidVERBinADPtheDETgraveNOUNgoVERBinADPmyPRONboatNOUNacrossADPtheDETfiordNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtakeVERBwhateverPRONyouPRONfindVERBinADPmyPRONhouseNOUNwhichPRONbelongsVERBtoADPmePRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1''PUNCT_2 Promisepunct
2PromisepromiseNOUNNumber=Sing21 gonsubj
3thatthatPRONPronType=Rel6 givensubj
4youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs6 givensubj
5willwillAUXVerbForm=Fin6 giveaux
6givegiveVERBVerbForm=Inf2 Promiseacl
7meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs6 giveiobj
8anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art10 burialdet
9honourablehonourableADJDegree=Pos10 burialamod
10burialburialNOUNNumber=Sing6 giveobj
11,,PUNCT_17 laidpunct
12andandCCONJ_17 laidcc
13whenwhenSCONJ_17 laidmark
14mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs15 bodynmod:poss
15bodybodyNOUNNumber=Sing17 laidnsubj
16isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin17 laidaux:pass
17laidlayVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass2 Promiseacl
18ininADP_20 gravecase
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 gravedet
20gravegraveNOUNNumber=Sing17 laidobl
21gogoVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
22ininADP_24 boatcase
23mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs24 boatnmod:poss
24boatboatNOUNNumber=Sing21 goobl
25acrossacrossADP_27 fiordcase
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 fiorddet
27fiordfiordNOUNNumber=Sing21 goobl
28,,PUNCT_30 takepunct
29andandCCONJ_30 takecc
30taketakeVERBVerbForm=Inf21 goconj
31whateverwhateverPRONPronType=Rel30 takeobj
32youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs33 findnsubj
33findfindVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin31 whateveracl:relcl
34ininADP_36 housecase
35mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs36 housenmod:poss
36househouseNOUNNumber=Sing33 findobl
37whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel38 belongsnsubj
38belongsbelongVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin36 houseacl:relcl
39totoADP_40 mecase
40meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs38 belongsobl
41..PUNCT_21 gopunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1givefuturePromisea honourable burialmevn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient burial=Theme
2laypresent · passivemy bodythe gravevn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in grave=Destination
3goinfinitivePromisemy boatacross the fiordvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across fiord=Initial_Location
4takeinfinitivePromise not said herewhatevervn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Theme
5findpresentyoumy housevn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
6belongpresentmy housemevn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=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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