The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 21

“No, I am sure it is not,” replied she; “you shall have it, I promise—only tell me what it is.”

Who acts: I, thing, you · What happens: be, not be, reply, have, promise, tell · To what, where: wife, thing, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, thing, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 sure	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 sure	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 sure	nsubj
5	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sure	cop
6	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 is	nsubj
8	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sure	ccomp
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 is	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sure	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 sure	punct
12	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sure	ccomp
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 replied	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 have	nsubj
17	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 have	aux
18	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 sure	parataxis
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 have	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 promise	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 promise	nsubj
22	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 have	parataxis
23	—	-	PUNCT	_	25 tell	punct
24	only	only	ADV	_	25 tell	advmod
25	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	22 promise	conj
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 tell	iobj
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 is	obj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 is	nsubj
29	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 tell	ccomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sure	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 sure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	I			sure property	tree rules
2	not be in a quote	present	thing				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	reply speech: assert	past	I not said here	wife			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic
4	have in a quote	shall	you	thing			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	promise speech: promise in a quote	present	I				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	I not said here		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
7	be in a quote	present	thing				vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=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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