The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 153

“You promised to love me always; tell me that you really mean what you said, or I shall have to ask the Fairy to give me back the form of the dove which pleased you so much.”

Who acts: You, old hermit · What happens: promise, love, tell, mean, say, have · To what, where: old hermit, Fairy, form, you, dove · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, old hermit), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 promised	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 promised	nsubj
3	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 love	mark
5	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 promised	xcomp
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 love	obj
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 love	advmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct
9	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 promised	parataxis
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 tell	iobj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 mean	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 mean	nsubj
13	really	really	ADV	_	14 mean	advmod
14	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 tell	advcl
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 said	obj
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 mean	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 have	cc
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 have	nsubj
21	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 have	aux
22	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 tell	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 ask	mark
24	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 have	xcomp
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Fairy	det
26	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ask	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 give	mark
28	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 ask	xcomp
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 give	iobj
30	back	back	ADP	_	28 give	compound:prt
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 form	det
32	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 give	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 dove	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 dove	det
35	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 form	nmod
36	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 pleased	nsubj
37	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 dove	acl:relcl
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 give	iobj
39	so	so	ADV	_	40 much	advmod
40	much	much	ADV	_	28 give	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 promised	punct
42	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise in a quote	past	You				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	love not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	You not said here	the old hermit = hermit		always property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive			the old hermit = hermit		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
4	mean in a quote	present	you				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	say speech: assert in a quote	past	you				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
6	have in a quote	shall	the old hermit = hermit				tree rules
7	ask speech: ask in a quote	to-infinitive	the old hermit = hermit not said here		the Fairy		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent fairy=Recipient clause=Topic
8	give back not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the old hermit = hermit not said here	the form of the dove	you		tree rules
9	form in a quote			the dove			nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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