The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 24

I have promised the miller to be present at his wedding-feast, and they won’t sit down till I come.”

Who acts: dogs, I · What happens: promise, be, not sit down, come · To what, where: I, wedding feast

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dogs, I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 promised	nsubj:pass
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 promised	aux
3	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 miller	det
5	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 promised	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	8 present	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 present	cop
8	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 promised	advcl
9	at	at	ADP	_	13 feast	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 feast	nmod:poss
11	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 feast	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 wedding	punct
13	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 present	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sit	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sit	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 sit	nsubj
17	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 sit	aux
18	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 sit	advmod
19	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 promised	parataxis
20	down	down	ADP	_	19 sit	compound:prt
21	till	till	SCONJ	_	23 come	mark
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 come	nsubj
23	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 sit	advcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 sit	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	present · perfect · passive		I			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal miller=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive			noise's wedding feast	present property	tree rules
3	not sit down	future	dogs = dog				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	come	present	I				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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