The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 73

‘However, I will promise you this, that the first trade you hear named after you come out from church shall be my trade for the rest of my life.’

Who acts: I, you, first trade · What happens: promise, hear, name, come out, be · To what, where: you, first trade, church, trade

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, first trade), 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 promise	punct
2	However	however	ADV	_	6 promise	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 However	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 promise	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 promise	aux
6	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 promise	iobj
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 you	nmod:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 trade	punct
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 trade	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 trade	det
12	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 trade	amod
13	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 trade	nsubj
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 hear	nsubj
15	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 trade	acl:relcl
16	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 trade	acl
17	after	after	SCONJ	_	19 come	mark
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 come	nsubj
19	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 named	advcl
20	out	out	ADV	_	19 come	advmod
21	from	from	ADP	_	22 church	case
22	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 come	obl
23	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 trade	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 trade	cop
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 trade	nmod:poss
26	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 promise	parataxis
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 rest	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 rest	det
29	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 trade	nmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 life	case
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 life	nmod:poss
32	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 rest	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 promise	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 promise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	future	I		you		however property	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	hear	present	you	the first trade not said here				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer trade=Stimulus
3	name	participle		the first trade not said here				vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	come out	present	you			church	out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
5	is a	shall	the first trade	my trade			for the rest of my life	tree rules

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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