The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 123

‘Oh, dear Huntsman, spare my life, and I will promise to fly forth into the wide wood and never to return home again.’

Who acts: you, I · What happens: spare, promise, fly, not return · To what, where: life, wide wood

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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	_	7 spare	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	7 spare	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Huntsman	punct
4	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Huntsman	amod
5	Huntsman	Huntsman	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Oh	vocative
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
7	spare	spare	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 life	nmod:poss
9	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spare	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 promise	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 promise	cc
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 promise	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 promise	aux
14	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 spare	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 fly	mark
16	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 promise	xcomp
17	forth	forth	ADV	_	16 fly	advmod
18	into	into	ADP	_	21 wood	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 wood	det
20	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 wood	amod
21	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fly	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 return	cc
23	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	25 return	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 return	mark
25	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 fly	conj
26	home	home	ADV	_	25 return	advmod
27	again	again	ADV	_	25 return	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 spare	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 spare	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	spare	imperative	you not said here	my life			vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent life=Asset
2	promise speech: promise	future	I				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	fly not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here			into the wide wood result; forth property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into wood=Result
4	not return	to-infinitive	I not said here		again	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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