The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 41

‘Well, I was that robin redbreast, and ever since I have vowed to be your friend, and as you want to marry Barbaik, I will prove the truth of what I say by helping you to do so.’

Who acts: I, you · What happens: be, vow, want, marry, prove, say · To what, where: robin redbreast, friend, Barbaik, truth, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37. 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), 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	_	8 redbreast	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	8 redbreast	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 redbreast	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 redbreast	cop
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 redbreast	mark
7	robin	robin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 redbreast	compound
8	redbreast	redbreast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 vowed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 vowed	cc
11	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	15 vowed	advmod
12	since	since	SCONJ	_	15 vowed	mark
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 vowed	nsubj
14	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 vowed	aux
15	vowed	vow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 redbreast	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	19 friend	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 friend	cop
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 friend	nmod:poss
19	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 vowed	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 prove	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 prove	cc
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 want	mark
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 want	nsubj
24	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 prove	advcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 marry	mark
26	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 want	xcomp
27	Barbaik	Barbaik	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 marry	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 want	punct
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 prove	nsubj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 prove	aux
31	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 redbreast	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 truth	det
33	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 prove	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 what	case
35	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 truth	nmod
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 say	nsubj
37	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 what	acl:relcl
38	by	by	SCONJ	_	39 helping	mark
39	helping	help	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 say	advcl
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 helping	obj
41	to	to	PART	_	42 do	mark
42	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 helping	xcomp
43	so	so	ADV	_	42 do	advmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 redbreast	punct
45	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 redbreast	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	is a	past	I	robin redbreast		tree rules
2	vow	present · perfect	I		ever	tree rules
3	is a	to-infinitive	I not said here	your friend		tree rules
4	want	present	you			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	Barbaik		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent barbaik=Patient
6	prove	future	I	the truth		vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Theme
7	say speech: assert	present	I			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
8	help	gerund	I not said here	you		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme
9	do	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn act-114-1 «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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