The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 79

Then Dil-aram answered: “If you will promise to marry me and to keep me always amongst those you favour, I will tell you all I know, and I will keep watch about the riddle.”

Who acts: Dil aram, you · What happens: answer, promise, marry, keep, favour, tell · To what, where: Dil aram, those, all, you, watch · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dil aram, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 answered	advmod
2	Dil	Dil	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 aram	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Dil	punct
4	aram	aram	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 answered	nsubj
5	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 promise	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 promise	punct
8	If	if	SCONJ	_	11 promise	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 promise	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 promise	aux
11	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 answered	ccomp
12	to	to	PART	_	13 marry	mark
13	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 promise	xcomp
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 marry	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 keep	cc
16	to	to	PART	_	17 keep	mark
17	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 promise	conj
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 keep	obj
19	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	17 keep	advmod
20	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	21 those	case
21	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	17 keep	obl
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 favour	nsubj
23	favour	favour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 those	acl:relcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 tell	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 tell	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 tell	aux
27	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 promise	parataxis
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 tell	iobj
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 tell	obj
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 know	nsubj
31	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 all	acl:relcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 keep	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 keep	cc
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 keep	nsubj
35	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 keep	aux
36	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 tell	conj
37	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 keep	obj
38	about	about	ADP	_	40 riddle	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 riddle	det
40	riddle	riddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 keep	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 promise	punct
42	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 promise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Dil aram				then		tree rules
2	promise speech: promise a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	you						vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	marry not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	Dil aram = aram					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
4	keep in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	Dil aram = aram		those		always property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme amongst that=Location
5	favour in a quote	present	you						tree rules
6	tell speech: assert in a quote	future	Dil aram = aram	all	you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient all=Topic
7	know in a quote	present	Dil aram = aram						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	keep in a quote	future	Dil aram = aram	watch				about the riddle	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent watch=Theme about riddle=Location

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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