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The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 47

But Masilo promised that he would never let his father see her, and that now she was a woman no one would try to hurt her; so Thakane’s heart melted, and she went down to the lake to consult the old woman.

Who acts: Masilo, father, that, one, heart, Thakane · What happens: promise, not let, see, be, try, hurt · To what, where: father, Thakane, woman, old woman

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Masilo, father, that, one), 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

ccnsubjmarknsubjauxadvmodccompnmod:possobjxcompobjpunctccnsubjadvmodnsubjcopdetobldetnsubjauxacl:relclmarkxcompobjpunctadvmodnmod:posscasensubjconjpunctccnsubjconjadvmodcasedetoblmarkadvcldetamodobjpunctrootButCCONJMasiloPROPNpromisedVERBthatSCONJhePRONwouldAUXneverADVletVERBhisPRONfatherNOUNseeVERBherPRON,PUNCTandCCONJthatPRONnowADVshePRONwasAUXaDETwomanNOUNnoDEToneNOUNwouldAUXtryVERBtoPARThurtVERBherPRON;PUNCTsoADVThakanePROPN’sPARTheartNOUNmeltedVERB,PUNCTandCCONJshePRONwentVERBdownADVtoADPtheDETlakeNOUNtoPARTconsultVERBtheDEToldADJwomanNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ButbutCCONJ_3 promisedcc
2MasiloMasiloPROPNNumber=Sing3 promisednsubj
3promisedpromiseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4thatthatSCONJ_8 letmark
5hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs8 letnsubj
6wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin8 letaux
7neverneverADVPronType=Neg8 letadvmod
8letletVERBVerbForm=Inf3 promisedccomp
9hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs10 fathernmod:poss
10fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing8 letobj
11seeseeVERBVerbForm=Inf8 letxcomp
12hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 seeobj
13,,PUNCT_20 womanpunct
14andandCCONJ_20 womancc
15thatthatPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem20 womannsubj
16nownowADVPronType=Dem20 womanadvmod
17sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs20 womannsubj
18wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin20 womancop
19aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art20 womandet
20womanwomanNOUNNumber=Sing3 promisedobl
21nonoDETPronType=Neg22 onedet
22oneoneNOUNNumber=Sing24 trynsubj
23wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin24 tryaux
24trytryVERBVerbForm=Inf20 womanacl:relcl
25totoPART_26 hurtmark
26hurthurtVERBVerbForm=Inf24 tryxcomp
27hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 hurtobj
28;;PUNCT_33 meltedpunct
29sosoADV_33 meltedadvmod
30ThakaneThakanePROPNNumber=Sing32 heartnmod:poss
31’s'sPART_30 Thakanecase
32heartheartNOUNNumber=Sing33 meltednsubj
33meltedmeltVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 promisedconj
34,,PUNCT_37 wentpunct
35andandCCONJ_37 wentcc
36sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs37 wentnsubj
37wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 promisedconj
38downdownADV_37 wentadvmod
39totoADP_41 lakecase
40thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art41 lakedet
41lakelakeNOUNNumber=Sing37 wentobl
42totoPART_43 consultmark
43consultconsultVERBVerbForm=Inf37 wentadvcl
44thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art46 womandet
45oldoldADJDegree=Pos46 womanamod
46womanwomanNOUNNumber=Sing43 consultobj
47..PUNCT_3 promisedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1promise speech: promisepastMasilovn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2not letwouldMasiloMasilo's fathertree rules
3seeinfinitiveMasilo's father not said hereThakanevn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
4is apastthata womannowtree rules
5trywouldno onea woman not said heretree rules
6hurt not said to happento-infinitiveno one not said hereThakanevn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Patient
7meltpastThakane's heartvn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
8go downpastThakaneto the lake; down propertyvn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
9consultto-infinitiveThakane not said herethe old womanvn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=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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