The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 115

“You have given your word, my father, and you cannot break it,” said she.

Who acts: You, princess, your · What happens: give, not break, say, word · To what, where: word, arm · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, princess, your), 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	_	4 given	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 given	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 given	aux
4	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 said	ccomp
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 word	nmod:poss
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 given	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 father	punct
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 father	nmod:poss
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 word	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 break	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 break	cc
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 break	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 break	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 break	advmod
15	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 given	ccomp
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 break	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 break	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 given	punct
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	give in a quote	present · perfect	You	your word and my father	tree rules
2	not break in a quote	can	you	arm	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	princess		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	word in a quote		your		nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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