The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 31

I have promised the Beast faithfully that I will come back, and he would die of grief if I did not keep my word!”

Who acts: I, Beast, my · What happens: promise, come back, die, not keep, word · To what, where: I, Beast, word

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 (I, Beast, my), 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	3 promised	nsubj:pass
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 promised	aux
3	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Beast	det
5	Beast	Beast	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 promised	obj
6	faithfully	faithfully	ADV	_	3 promised	advmod
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 come	mark
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 come	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 come	aux
10	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 promised	xcomp
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 come	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 die	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 die	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 die	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 die	aux
16	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 promised	parataxis
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 grief	case
18	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 die	obl
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 keep	mark
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 keep	nsubj
21	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 keep	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 keep	advmod
23	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 die	advcl
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 word	nmod:poss
25	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 keep	obj
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 die	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	present · perfect · passive		I	the Beast	faithfully property	tree rules
2	come back not said to happen	future	I				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	die	would	Beast			of grief	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of grief=Causer
4	not keep a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	I	my word			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
5	word		my				nom word «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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