The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 104

‘She will come; but unless you pledge me your faith that you will not harm her I will not fetch her.’

Who acts: Olwen, you, I · What happens: come, pledge, not harm, not fetch · To what, where: faith, me, Olwen

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Olwen, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
2	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 come	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 fetch	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 fetch	cc
7	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	9 pledge	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 pledge	nsubj
9	pledge	pledge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 fetch	advcl
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 pledge	obj
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 faith	nmod:poss
12	faith	faith	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pledge	obj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 harm	obj
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 harm	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 harm	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 harm	advmod
17	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 faith	acl:relcl
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 harm	obj
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 fetch	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 fetch	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 fetch	advmod
22	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	parataxis
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 fetch	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	come	future	Olwen			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pledge a condition, not said to happen	present	you	your faith	me	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal faith=Theme
3	not harm	future	you	your faith		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus that=Experiencer she=Result
4	not fetch	future	I	Olwen		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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