The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 41
“Yes, you promised you would go to war and bring back some prisoners, and you have not done it.”
Who acts: you · What happens: promise, go, bring back, not do · To what, where: war, prisoners · 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 (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 | _ | 5 promised | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 promised | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 promised | nsubj |
| 5 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 go | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 go | aux |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 promised | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 war | case |
| 10 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 go | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bring | cc |
| 12 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 go | conj |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 bring | advmod |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 prisoners | det |
| 15 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 bring | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 done | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 done | cc |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 done | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 done | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 done | advmod |
| 21 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 promised | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 done | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 promised | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise in a quote | past | you | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go in a quote | would | you | war | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to war=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | bring back in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | some prisoners | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent prisoner=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not do in a quote | present · perfect | you | war | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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