The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 83

“Be sure you keep the promise you made to Geirald,” said she, as she bade him good-bye, “and, come what may, see that you never betray him.”

Who acts: you, mother · What happens: be, keep, make, say, bade, come · To what, where: promise, Geirald · 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, mother), 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 sure	punct
2	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 sure	cop
3	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 said	ccomp
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 keep	nsubj
5	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sure	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 promise	det
7	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keep	obj
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 made	nsubj
9	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 promise	acl:relcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 Geirald	case
11	Geirald	Geirald	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 made	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 keep	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 sure	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 bade	punct
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 bade	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 bade	nsubj
19	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	parataxis
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 bade	obj
21	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 bade	xcomp
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 good	punct
23	bye	bye	INTJ	_	21 good	flat
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 come	punct
25	“	"	PUNCT	_	28 come	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 come	cc
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 and	punct
28	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 bade	conj
29	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 come	obl
30	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 what	aux
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 see	punct
32	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 come	conj
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 betray	mark
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 betray	nsubj
35	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	36 betray	advmod
36	betray	betray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 see	ccomp
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 betray	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	infinitive				sure property	tree rules
2	keep in a quote	present	you	the promise			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme
3	make in a quote	past	you	the promise not said here	Geirald		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Product
4	say speech: assert	past	mother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	bade	past	mother	Geirald		good property	tree rules
6	come in a quote	infinitive	mother not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	see in a quote	infinitive	mother not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	not betray in a quote	present	you	Geirald			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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