The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 33

“Here I am to claim the woman who promised to be my wife.”

Who acts: woman · What happens: be, claim, promise · To what, where: woman, wife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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	_	2 Here	punct
2	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Here	nsubj
4	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Here	cop
5	to	to	PART	_	6 claim	mark
6	claim	claim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Here	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woman	det
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 claim	obj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 promised	nsubj
10	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 woman	acl:relcl
11	to	to	PART	_	14 wife	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 wife	cop
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 wife	nmod:poss
14	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 promised	ccomp
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	the woman = woman		here property	tree rules
2	claim speech: other in a quote	to-infinitive	the woman = woman not said here	the woman		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent woman=Topic
3	promise speech: promise in a quote	past	the woman			vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive		my wife		tree rules

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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