The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 75

I promised more than I could perform.

Who acts: I · What happens: promise, perform · To what, where: more

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	2 promised	nsubj
2	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 promised	obj
4	than	than	SCONJ	_	7 perform	mark
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 perform	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 perform	aux
7	perform	perform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 more	advcl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	I	more					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent more=Theme
2	perform	could	I						vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=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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