The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 93
‘Dear little one, I promise that you shall be richer than your father, and shall live a hundred years, always pretty and happy, without fear of old age and wrinkles.’
Who acts: I, you · What happens: promise, be, live, fear · To what, where: Dear little one, old age
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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 | _ | 4 one | punct |
| 2 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 one | amod |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 one | amod |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 promise | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 promise | nsubj |
| 7 | promise | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 richer | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 richer | nsubj |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 richer | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 richer | cop |
| 12 | richer | rich | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 promise | advcl |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 father | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 father | nmod:poss |
| 15 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 richer | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 live | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 live | cc |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 live | aux |
| 19 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 promise | parataxis |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 hundred | det |
| 21 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 years | nummod |
| 22 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 live | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 pretty | punct |
| 24 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 25 pretty | advmod |
| 25 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 19 live | advmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 happy | cc |
| 27 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 pretty | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 fear | punct |
| 29 | without | without | ADP | _ | 30 fear | case |
| 30 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 live | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 age | case |
| 32 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 age | amod |
| 33 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 fear | nmod |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 wrinkles | cc |
| 35 | wrinkles | wrinkle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 age | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 promise | punct |
| 37 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 promise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | present | I | Dear little one | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | shall | you | than your father; rich property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | live | shall | year | pretty property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fear | old age and wrinkles | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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