The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 41
Now, if you will promise that she shall marry me, not one of the lions, tigers, or bears shall touch you.”
Who acts: you, wife, bears · What happens: promise, marry, touch · To what, where: me, you
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, wife, bears), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 promise | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 promise | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 promise | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 promise | aux |
| 6 | promise | promise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 marry | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 marry | nsubj |
| 9 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 marry | aux |
| 10 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 promise | xcomp |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 marry | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 one | punct |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 one | advmod |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 marry | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 lions | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 lions | det |
| 17 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 one | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 tigers | punct |
| 19 | tigers | tiger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 lions | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 touch | punct |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 touch | cc |
| 22 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 touch | nsubj |
| 23 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 touch | aux |
| 24 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 promise | parataxis |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 touch | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 touch | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 touch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | future | you | now | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | marry not said to happen | shall | wife | me | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 3 | touch | shall | bears | you | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme you=Co-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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