The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 95

‘Well, I won’t say “No,”’ replied Bellah, with a laugh, ‘but you must promise first to let me catch one of those lovely fish in your net.’

Who acts: I, Bellah, you, me · What happens: not say, reply, promise, let, catch · To what, where: me, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Bellah, you, me), 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	_	7 say	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	7 say	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 say	nsubj
5	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
6	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 say	advmod
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 replied	ccomp
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 No	punct
9	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 say	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 No	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 No	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
13	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	Bellah	Bellah	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 replied	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 laugh	punct
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 laugh	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 laugh	det
18	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Bellah	appos
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 promise	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 promise	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 promise	cc
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 promise	nsubj
23	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 promise	aux
24	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 replied	parataxis
25	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	24 promise	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 let	mark
27	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 promise	ccomp
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 let	obj
29	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 let	xcomp
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 catch	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 fish	case
32	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	34 fish	det
33	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 fish	amod
34	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 one	nmod
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 net	case
36	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 net	nmod:poss
37	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 fish	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 promise	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	24 promise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	future	I			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no=Topic
2	reply speech: assert	past	Bellah			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	promise speech: promise	must	you		first property	vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	let not said to happen	to-infinitive		me		tree rules
5	catch	infinitive	me not said here	one of that lovely fish in your net		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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 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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