The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 59
But there is none that can answer that question save only I myself, if you will promise to do all I ask.’
Who acts: none, you, I · What happens: be, answer, save, promise, do, ask · To what, where: question, myself, all
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (none, you, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 is | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 save | advcl |
| 4 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 3 is | nsubj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 answer | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 answer | aux |
| 7 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 none | acl:relcl |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 question | det |
| 9 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answer | obj |
| 10 | save | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 myself | advmod |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 myself | nsubj |
| 13 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 save | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 promise | punct |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 promise | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 promise | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 promise | aux |
| 18 | promise | promise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 save | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 do | mark |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 promise | xcomp |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 do | obj |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 ask | nsubj |
| 23 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 all | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 save | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 save | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | none | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | can | that question | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | save | present | myself | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | promise speech: promise a condition, not said to happen | future | you | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | all | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | ask speech: ask | present | I | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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 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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