The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 72
“I want you to promise,” she answered, lowering her voice to a whisper, “never to bathe in those pools again.”
Who acts: face, you · What happens: want, promise, answer, lower, not bathe · To what, where: you, voice, whisper · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (face, 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 | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 want | nsubj |
| 3 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 answered | advcl |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 want | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 promise | mark |
| 6 | promise | promise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 want | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 answered | nsubj |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lowering | punct |
| 12 | lowering | lower | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 answered | advcl |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 voice | nmod:poss |
| 14 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lowering | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 whisper | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 whisper | det |
| 17 | whisper | whisper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lowering | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 bathe | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 bathe | punct |
| 20 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 22 bathe | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 bathe | mark |
| 22 | bathe | bathe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 answered | ccomp |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 pools | case |
| 24 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 25 pools | det |
| 25 | pools | pool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 bathe | obl |
| 26 | again | again | ADV | _ | 22 bathe | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 bathe | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 bathe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want in a quote | present | face | you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | face | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | lower | gerund | face not said here | face's voice | a whisper | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent voice=Theme to whisper=Destination | |||
| 5 | not bathe in a quote | to-infinitive | again | in that pools | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in pool=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 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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