The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 66
Miranda was very grateful to him, and promised faithfully that nothing in the world should keep her from coming back.
Who acts: Miranda, nothing · What happens: be, promise, keep, come back · To what, where: King, Miranda
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, 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 (Miranda, nothing), 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 | Miranda | Miranda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 grateful | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grateful | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 grateful | advmod |
| 4 | grateful | grateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 grateful | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 promised | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 promised | cc |
| 9 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grateful | conj |
| 10 | faithfully | faithfully | ADV | _ | 9 promised | advmod |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 keep | mark |
| 12 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 17 keep | nsubj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 world | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 world | det |
| 15 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 nothing | nmod |
| 16 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 keep | aux |
| 17 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 promised | advcl |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 keep | obj |
| 19 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 20 coming | mark |
| 20 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 keep | advcl |
| 21 | back | back | ADV | _ | 20 coming | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grateful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Miranda | King | grateful property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | past | Miranda not said here | faithfully property | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | keep | should | nothing | Miranda | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come back | gerund | nothing not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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