The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 46

You must promise me not to let the Duchess see how much you dislike her.’

Who acts: You, Duchess · What happens: promise, not let, see, dislike · To what, where: me, much · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, 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, Duchess), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 promise	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 promise	aux
3	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 promise	obj
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 let	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 let	mark
7	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 promise	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Duchess	det
9	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 see	nsubj
10	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 let	ccomp
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 much	advmod
12	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 dislike	obj
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 dislike	nsubj
14	dislike	dislike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 see	ccomp
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 dislike	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 promise	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 promise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	must	You		me	vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not let not said to happen	to-infinitive				tree rules
3	see	present	the Duchess			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	dislike	present	you	much		tree rules

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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