The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 30
Don’t you remember the promise you made to go and see him often?
Who acts: you, promise · What happens: not do, remember, make, go, see · To what, where: promise, Ahmed
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, promise), 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 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 1 Do | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 remember | nsubj |
| 4 | remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Do | parataxis |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 promise | det |
| 6 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 remember | obj |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 made | nsubj |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 promise | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 go | mark |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 made | xcomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 see | cc |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 go | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 see | obj |
| 14 | often | often | ADV | _ | 12 see | advmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | imperative | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | remember | present | you | the promise | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent promise=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | past | you | the promise not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | to-infinitive | the promise not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | see | infinitive | the promise not said here | Ahmed | often property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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