The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 213
“Then promise me when you are Queen to give me your first child.”
Who acts: you · What happens: promise, be, give · To what, where: girl, Queen, first child
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | _ | 3 promise | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 promise | advmod |
| 3 | promise | promise | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 promise | obj |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 Queen | advmod |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 Queen | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 Queen | cop |
| 8 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 promise | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 give | mark |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 promise | advcl |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 give | iobj |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 child | nmod:poss |
| 13 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 child | amod |
| 14 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 promise | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 promise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise in a quote | imperative | you not said here | the girl = girl | then | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | you | Queen | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | your first child | the girl = girl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient child=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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