The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 75

If you will not promise I shall go mad with fright.

Who acts: you, I · What happens: not promise, go · 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 (you, I), 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 promise	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 promise	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 promise	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 promise	advmod
5	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 go	nsubj
7	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 go	aux
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 promise	ccomp
9	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 go	xcomp
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 fright	case
11	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mad	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 promise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not promise speech: promise	future	you						vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go	shall	I					mad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: 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 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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