The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 133
To-day I think I have fulfilled my promise of repaying you.”
Who acts: I, promise, my · What happens: think, fulfil, repay, promise · To what, where: promise, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, promise, 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 To | punct |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 think | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 think | nsubj |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 fulfilled | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 fulfilled | aux |
| 8 | fulfilled | fulfil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 think | ccomp |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 promise | nmod:poss |
| 10 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fulfilled | obj |
| 11 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 12 repaying | mark |
| 12 | repaying | repay | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 promise | acl |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 repaying | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 fulfilled | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 fulfilled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | I | day | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fulfil | present · perfect | I | my promise | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | repay | gerund | my promise not said here | you | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | promise | my | 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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