The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 58
But he answered: ‘Only on condition that you promise faithfully that the first girl we meet shall not be killed.’
Who acts: wood, you, we · What happens: answer, promise, meet, not kill · To what, where: condition, first girl
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wood, you, we), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 answered | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 condition | punct |
| 6 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 8 condition | advmod |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 condition | case |
| 8 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | parataxis |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 promise | obj |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 promise | nsubj |
| 11 | promise | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 condition | acl:relcl |
| 12 | faithfully | faithfully | ADV | _ | 11 promise | advmod |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 killed | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 girl | det |
| 15 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 girl | amod |
| 16 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 meet | nsubj |
| 18 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 girl | acl:relcl |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 killed | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 killed | advmod |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 killed | aux:pass |
| 22 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 promise | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 condition | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 condition | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | wood | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | present | you | condition | faithfully property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent that=Theme | |||
| 3 | meet | present | we | the first girl not said here | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | not kill | shall · passive | the first girl | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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