The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 19

Before leaving he promised to return and fetch her to his father’s court, where he would make her his bride.

Who acts: prince · What happens: leave, promise, return, fetch, make · To what, where: horse, bride

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	2 leaving	mark
2	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 promised	nsubj
4	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 leaving	ccomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 return	mark
6	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 promised	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fetch	cc
8	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 return	conj
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fetch	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	14 court	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 father	nmod:poss
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 court	nmod:poss
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 father	case
14	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fetch	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 make	punct
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 make	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 make	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 make	aux
19	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 fetch	conj
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 make	obj
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 bride	nmod:poss
22	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 make	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 leaving	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	leave	gerund					tree rules
2	promise speech: promise	past	prince				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	return not said to happen	to-infinitive	prince not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fetch	infinitive	prince not said here	horse		to prince's father's court	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
5	make	would	prince	prince's bride	horse		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary bride=Product

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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