The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 60
‘And if thou forgettest thy promise, I will remember it.’
Who acts: thou, I, thy · What happens: forget, remember, promise · To what, where: promise
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, I, thy), 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 | _ | 11 remember | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 remember | cc |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 forgettest | mark |
| 4 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 forgettest | nsubj |
| 5 | forgettest | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 remember | advcl |
| 6 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 promise | nmod:poss |
| 7 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 forgettest | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 forgettest | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 remember | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 remember | aux |
| 11 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 remember | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 remember | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 remember | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget a condition, not said to happen | present | thou | thy promise | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | remember | future | I | promise | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | promise | thy | nom promise «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 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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