The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 97
But he reminded them that he had promised to go back.
Who acts: father · What happens: remind, promise, go back · To what, where: plans · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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 reminded | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reminded | nsubj |
| 3 | reminded | remind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reminded | obj |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 promised | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 promised | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 promised | aux |
| 8 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 reminded | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 go | mark |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 promised | xcomp |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 go | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reminded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remind speech: other | past | father | plans = plan | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | past · perfect | father | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go back not said to happen | to-infinitive | father not said here | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient |
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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