The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 59
‘She shall be spared,’ they promised, ‘only tell us the news.’
Who acts: others · What happens: spare, promise, tell · To what, where: girl, news, us · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (others), 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 | _ | 5 spared | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 spared | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 spared | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 spared | aux:pass |
| 5 | spared | spare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 promised | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | CCONJ | _ | 9 promised | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 promised | nsubj |
| 9 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spared | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tell | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 tell | punct |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 tell | advmod |
| 13 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 promised | conj |
| 14 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 tell | iobj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 news | det |
| 16 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tell | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 spared | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 spared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spare | shall · passive | girl | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: subject=Asset | |||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | past | others = other | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | others = other not said here | the news | us | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient news=Topic |
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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