The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 36

‘One thing shalt thou promise me, and that is, to do what thy father bids thee, but not what thy mother bids thee,’ and this he promised.

Who acts: One thing, that, father, mother, this · What happens: promise, be, bid · To what, where: me, thee

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princesses of Whiteland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One thing, that, father, mother), 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	_	6 promise	punct
2	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 thing	nummod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 promise	nsubj
4	shalt	shall	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	6 promise	aux
5	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	6 promise	nsubj
6	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 promise	iobj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 do	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 do	cc
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 do	nsubj:outer
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 do	cop
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 do	punct
13	to	to	PART	_	14 do	mark
14	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 promise	conj
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 bids	obj
16	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	17 father	nmod:poss
17	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bids	nsubj
18	bids	bid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 do	advcl
19	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	18 bids	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 what	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 what	cc
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 what	advmod
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 promise	conj
24	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	25 mother	nmod:poss
25	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bids	nsubj
26	bids	bid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 what	acl:relcl
27	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	26 bids	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 promise	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 promise	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 promised	cc
31	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 promised	nsubj
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 promised	nsubj
33	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 promise	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 promise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	shall	One thing		me		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	is	present	that			do property	tree rules
3	bid	present	thy father	thee			tree rules
4	bid	present	thy mother	thee			tree rules
5	promise speech: promise	past	this				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 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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