The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 99
“I don’t want you to promise me in a hurry.”
Who acts: Dwarf, you · What happens: not want, promise · To what, where: you, Dwarf, hurry
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 (Dwarf, 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 | _ | 5 want | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 want | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 want | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 want | advmod |
| 5 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 want | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 promise | mark |
| 8 | promise | promise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 want | xcomp |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 promise | iobj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 hurry | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hurry | det |
| 12 | hurry | hurry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 promise | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 want | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not want in a quote | present · do-support | Dwarf | you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | Dwarf | a hurry | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent i=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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