The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 40

“Ah! my mother,” replied Bellissima sadly, “what did _you_ promise, yourself?”

Who acts: Bellissima, you · What happens: reply, promise · To what, where: yourself · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bellissima, 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	_	8 replied	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	8 replied	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mother	nmod:poss
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Ah	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
8	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 promise	advcl
9	Bellissima	Bellissima	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 replied	obj
10	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	8 replied	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 did	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 did	punct
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 did	nsubj
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 promise	aux
15	_	_	PUNCT	_	14 did	punct
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 promise	nsubj
17	_	_	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 promise	aux
18	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 yourself	punct
20	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 promise	obl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 promise	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 promise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reply speech: ask	past	Bellissima					sadly property	vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	promise speech: promise in a quote	past · do-support	you	yourself					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=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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