The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 27

“I promised your father that I would be your friend, and to keep my word I have come to bring you a present.”

Who acts: Fairy, my · What happens: promise, be, keep, come, bring, word · To what, where: father, friend, word, present, you · 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 (Fairy, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 promised	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 promised	nsubj
3	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 father	nmod:poss
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 promised	obj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 friend	mark
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 friend	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 friend	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 friend	cop
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 friend	nmod:poss
11	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 father	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 keep	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 keep	cc
14	to	to	PART	_	15 keep	mark
15	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 promised	advcl
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 word	nmod:poss
17	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 keep	obj
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 come	nsubj
19	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 come	aux
20	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 keep	ccomp
21	to	to	PART	_	22 bring	mark
22	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 come	xcomp
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 bring	obj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 present	det
25	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bring	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 promised	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	promise speech: promise in a quote	past	the Fairy = fairy		your father	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent father=Theme
2	is a in a quote	would	the Fairy = fairy	your friend		tree rules
3	keep in a quote	to-infinitive	the Fairy = fairy not said here	my word		tree rules
4	come in a quote	present · perfect	the Fairy = fairy			tree rules
5	bring in a quote	to-infinitive	the Fairy = fairy not said here	a present	you	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination present=Theme
6	word in a quote		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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