The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 5

I will therefore go back with my father to keep his promise.”

Who acts: I, his · What happens: go back, keep, promise · To what, where: promise

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, his), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
3	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 father	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 father	nmod:poss
8	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 keep	mark
10	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	advcl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 promise	nmod:poss
12	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 keep	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go back	future	I		with my father; therefore property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	keep	to-infinitive	I not said here	his promise		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme
3	promise		his = he			nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=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 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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