The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 111

If ever you should return to the pool where you first heard the voice, promise me that you will at least take this with you.”

Who acts: you · What happens: return, hear, promise, take · To what, where: voice, me, this, least

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 return	mark
2	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 return	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 return	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 return	aux
5	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 promise	advcl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 pool	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pool	det
8	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 return	obl
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 heard	advmod
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 heard	nsubj
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 heard	advmod
12	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 pool	acl:relcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 voice	det
14	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 heard	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 promise	punct
16	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 promise	obj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 take	mark
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 take	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 take	aux
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 least	case
22	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 take	obl
23	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 promise	advcl
24	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 take	obj
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 you	case
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 take	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 promise	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 promise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return a condition, not said to happen	should	you				ever	to the pool result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to pool=Result
2	hear	past	you	the voice				first property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus
3	promise speech: promise	imperative	you not said here		me				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	take	future	you	this		least		with you	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent this=Theme at least=Asset

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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