The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 18
But remember your promise and come back when the two months are over, or you may have cause to repent it, for if you do not come in good time you will find your faithful Beast dead.
Who acts: you, two months, your · What happens: remember, come back, be, have, repent, not come in · To what, where: promise, cause, faithful Beast
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, two months, your), 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 | _ | 2 remember | cc |
| 2 | remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 promise | nmod:poss |
| 4 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 remember | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 come | cc |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 remember | conj |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 come | advmod |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 over | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 months | det |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 months | nummod |
| 11 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 over | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 over | cop |
| 13 | over | over | ADV | _ | 6 come | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 have | punct |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 have | cc |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 have | nsubj |
| 17 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 have | aux |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 remember | parataxis |
| 19 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 have | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 repent | mark |
| 21 | repent | repent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 cause | acl |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 repent | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 come | punct |
| 24 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 29 come | mark |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 29 come | mark |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 come | nsubj |
| 27 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 come | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 come | advmod |
| 29 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 have | conj |
| 30 | in | in | ADV | _ | 29 come | advmod |
| 31 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 time | amod |
| 32 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 find | obl:unmarked |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 find | nsubj |
| 34 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 find | aux |
| 35 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 come | conj |
| 36 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 Beast | nmod:poss |
| 37 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 Beast | amod |
| 38 | Beast | Beast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 find | obj |
| 39 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 find | xcomp |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 remember | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | imperative | you not said here | your promise | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent promise=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come back | infinitive | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | present | the two months | over property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | may | you | cause | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Patient | ||||
| 5 | repent | to-infinitive | you not said here | cause | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not come in a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | find | future | you | your faithful Beast | time | dead property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Topic | ||
| 8 | promise | your | 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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