The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 85

“I promised your father,” said she sternly, “to give you good advice, and to punish you if you refused to follow it.

Who acts: clap, you · What happens: promise, say, give, punish, refuse, not follow · To what, where: father, good advice, you, advice · 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 (clap, you), 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	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 promised	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 promised	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 promised	conj
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
10	sternly	sternly	ADV	_	8 said	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 give	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 give	punct
13	to	to	PART	_	14 give	mark
14	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 give	iobj
16	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 advice	amod
17	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 give	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 punish	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 punish	cc
20	to	to	PART	_	21 punish	mark
21	punish	punish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 give	conj
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 punish	obj
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 refused	mark
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 refused	nsubj
25	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 punish	advcl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 follow	mark
27	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 refused	xcomp
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 follow	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise in a quote	past	clap		your father		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent father=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	clap			sternly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	give in a quote	to-infinitive		good advice	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient advice=Theme
4	punish in a quote	to-infinitive		you			vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
5	refuse a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	you				vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	not follow in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	advice			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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