The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 17

So the lad promised not to forget to do that.

Who acts: lad · What happens: promise, not forget, do · To what, where: that

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, 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 (lad), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 promised	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lad	det
3	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 promised	nsubj
4	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 forget	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 forget	mark
7	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 promised	xcomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 forget	xcomp
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 do	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	the lad		vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not forget not said to happen	to-infinitive	the lad not said here		tree rules
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	the lad not said here	that	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality

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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